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SubjectRe: [PATCHSETS] v14 fsdax-rmap + v11 fsdax-reflink
On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 07:28:53PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 10 May 2022 18:55:50 -0700 Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> wrote:
>
> > > It'll need to be a stable branch somewhere, but I don't think it
> > > really matters where al long as it's merged into the xfs for-next
> > > tree so it gets filesystem test coverage...
> >
> > So how about let the notify_failure() bits go through -mm this cycle,
> > if Andrew will have it, and then the reflnk work has a clean v5.19-rc1
> > baseline to build from?
>
> What are we referring to here? I think a minimal thing would be the
> memremap.h and memory-failure.c changes from
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220508143620.1775214-4-ruansy.fnst@fujitsu.com ?
>
> Sure, I can scoot that into 5.19-rc1 if you think that's best. It
> would probably be straining things to slip it into 5.19.
>
> The use of EOPNOTSUPP is a bit suspect, btw. It *sounds* like the
> right thing, but it's a networking errno. I suppose livable with if it
> never escapes the kernel, but if it can get back to userspace then a
> user would be justified in wondering how the heck a filesystem
> operation generated a networking errno?

<shrug> most filesystems return EOPNOTSUPP rather enthusiastically when
they don't know how to do something...

--D

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