Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 6 Nov 2012 07:06:42 -0500 | | From | "J. Bruce Fields" <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3] SUNRPC: set desired file system root before connecting local transports |
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On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 02:14:50PM +0400, Stanislav Kinsbursky wrote: > 09.10.2012 23:35, J. Bruce Fields пишет: > >Cc'ing Eric since I seem to recall he suggested doing it this way? > > > >Seems OK to me, but maybe that swap_root should be in common code? (Or > >maybe we could use set_fs_root()?) > > > > This patch is not good since, as Eric mentioned, all kernel threads > share same fs struct. > We can swap whole fs struct. Or we can unshare fs struct > (unshare_fs_struct() is exported) and swap root in this case. > But this approach is to close to set_fs_root() logic, which is not > exported and seems there are some valid reasons for it.
What are those reasons?
Googling found one previous thread:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1259986/focus=47687
There Trond requests an ACK from Al or Cristoph for the export, but I don't see either an ACK or any objection.
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