Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Jan 2015 07:49:20 -0500 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/5] tracing: Add new file system tracefs |
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On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 11:35:53PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jan 2015 04:23:30 +0000 > Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> wrote: > > > I would recommend against that - kernfs is overburdened by their need > > to accomodate cgroup weirdness. IMO it's not a good model for > > anything, other than an anti-hard-drugs poster ("don't shoot that > > shit, or you might end up hallucinating _this_"). > > OK, I'm not the only one that thought kernfs seemed to go all over the > place. I guess I now know why. It was more of a hook for cgroups. I can
Again, not true at all.
> understand why cgroups needed it, as I found that creating files from a > mkdir and removing them with rmdir causes some pain in vfs with > handling of locking. As that's what I'm working on overcoming now. > > But I think I solved my issues (testing it now), and hopefully by > tomorrow, I'll have a V2 out.
I'd strongly recomment just using kernfs. If you find something wrong with it, let's fix it, please.
Thanks.
-- tejun
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