Re: [PATCH 00/10] convert the majority of file systems to mmap_prepare

[Lorenzo Stoakes]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2025 at 09:45:32AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> On Mon, 2025-06-16 at 21:41 +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 16, 2025 at 08:33:19PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> > > REVIEWER'S NOTES
> > > ================
> > >
> > > I am basing this on the mm-new branch in Andrew's tree, so let me know if I
> > > should rebase anything here. Given the mm bits touched I did think perhaps
> > > we should take it through the mm tree, however it may be more sensible to
> > > take it through an fs tree - let me know!
> > >
> > > Apologies for the noise/churn, but there are some prerequisite steps here
> > > that inform an ordering - "fs: consistently use file_has_valid_mmap_hooks()
> > > helper" being especially critical, and so I put the bulk of the work in the
> > > same series.
> > >
> > > Let me know if there's anything I can do to make life easier here.
> >
> > Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst?
>
> Also, an entry for ->mmap_prepare in Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst
> would be good.
>
> I went there first to understand what the requirements of mmap_prepare
> are, but there is nothing.

Ack, on it.

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> Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
>