On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 08:49:28AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 12:14 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Hi Al and Linus, > > > > currently a lot of the file system calls in the early in code (and the > > devtmpfs kthread) rely on the implicit set_fs(KERNEL_DS) during boot. > > This is one of the few last remaining places we need to deal with to kill > > off set_fs entirely, so this series adds new helpers that take kernel > > pointers. These helpers are in init/ and marked __init and thus will > > be discarded after bootup. A few also need to be duplicated in devtmpfs, > > though unfortunately. > > I see nothing objectionable here. > > The only bikeshed comment I have is that I think the "for_init.c" name > is ugly and pointless - I think you could just call it "fs/init.c" and > it's both simpler and more straightforward. It _is_ init code, it's > not "for" init. That was Al's suggestion. I personally don't care, so if between the two of you, you can come up with a preferred choice I'll switch to it.
