Message ID | 20231027-vfs-autofs-018bbf11ed67@brauner (mailing list archive) |
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State | New, archived |
Headers | show |
Series | [GIT,PULL,for,v6.7] autofs updates | expand |
On 27/10/23 22:33, Christian Brauner wrote: > Hey Linus, > > /* Summary */ > This ports autofs to the new mount api. The patchset has existed for > quite a while but never made it upstream. Ian picked it back up. > > This also fixes a bug where fs_param_is_fd() was passed a garbage > param->dirfd but it expected it to be set to the fd that was used to set > param->file otherwise result->uint_32 contains nonsense. So make sure > it's set. > > One less filesystem using the old mount api. We're getting there, albeit > rather slow. The last remaining major filesystem that hasn't converted > is btrfs. Patches exist - I even wrote them - but so far they haven't > made it upstream. Yes, looks like about 39 still to be converted. Just for information, excluding btrfs, what would you like to see as the priority for conversion (in case me or any of my colleagues get a chance to spend a bit more time on it)? Ian
On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 03:54:52PM +0800, Ian Kent wrote: > On 27/10/23 22:33, Christian Brauner wrote: > > Hey Linus, > > > > /* Summary */ > > This ports autofs to the new mount api. The patchset has existed for > > quite a while but never made it upstream. Ian picked it back up. > > > > This also fixes a bug where fs_param_is_fd() was passed a garbage > > param->dirfd but it expected it to be set to the fd that was used to set > > param->file otherwise result->uint_32 contains nonsense. So make sure > > it's set. > > > > One less filesystem using the old mount api. We're getting there, albeit > > rather slow. The last remaining major filesystem that hasn't converted > > is btrfs. Patches exist - I even wrote them - but so far they haven't > > made it upstream. > > Yes, looks like about 39 still to be converted. > > > Just for information, excluding btrfs, what would you like to see as the > > priority for conversion (in case me or any of my colleagues get a chance > > to spend a bit more time on it)? I think one way to prioritize them is by how likely they are to have (more than a couple) active users. So recently I've done overlayfs because aside from btrfs that was probably one of the really actively used filesystems that hadn't yet been converted. And that did surface some regression So 9p, fat, devpts, f2fs, zonefs, ext2 are pretty obvious targets. Judging from experience, the more mount options a filesystem has the bigger the conversion patch will usually be. Another way is by function. For example, we expose mount_bdev() which is basically the legacy version of get_tree_bdev(). And they sort of are almost copies of each other. So converting all callers to the new mount api means we can get rid of mount_bdev(). But that's like 25 of the remaining 39. But in the end any filesystem that is converted is great.
On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 03:54:52PM +0800, Ian Kent wrote: > On 27/10/23 22:33, Christian Brauner wrote: > > Hey Linus, > > > > /* Summary */ > > This ports autofs to the new mount api. The patchset has existed for > > quite a while but never made it upstream. Ian picked it back up. > > > > This also fixes a bug where fs_param_is_fd() was passed a garbage > > param->dirfd but it expected it to be set to the fd that was used to set > > param->file otherwise result->uint_32 contains nonsense. So make sure > > it's set. > > > > One less filesystem using the old mount api. We're getting there, albeit > > rather slow. The last remaining major filesystem that hasn't converted > > is btrfs. Patches exist - I even wrote them - but so far they haven't > > made it upstream. > > Yes, looks like about 39 still to be converted. > > > Just for information, excluding btrfs, what would you like to see as the > > priority for conversion (in case me or any of my colleagues get a chance > > to spend a bit more time on it)? I'm just starting to have a look at zonefs as a candidate. -Bill
The pull request you sent on Fri, 27 Oct 2023 16:33:41 +0200:
> git@gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs tags/vfs-6.7.autofs
has been merged into torvalds/linux.git:
https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/0d63d8b2294b228147bf58def506dde35e57daef
Thank you!
On 30/10/23 18:24, Christian Brauner wrote: > On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 03:54:52PM +0800, Ian Kent wrote: >> On 27/10/23 22:33, Christian Brauner wrote: >>> Hey Linus, >>> >>> /* Summary */ >>> This ports autofs to the new mount api. The patchset has existed for >>> quite a while but never made it upstream. Ian picked it back up. >>> >>> This also fixes a bug where fs_param_is_fd() was passed a garbage >>> param->dirfd but it expected it to be set to the fd that was used to set >>> param->file otherwise result->uint_32 contains nonsense. So make sure >>> it's set. >>> >>> One less filesystem using the old mount api. We're getting there, albeit >>> rather slow. The last remaining major filesystem that hasn't converted >>> is btrfs. Patches exist - I even wrote them - but so far they haven't >>> made it upstream. >> Yes, looks like about 39 still to be converted. >> >> >> Just for information, excluding btrfs, what would you like to see as the >> >> priority for conversion (in case me or any of my colleagues get a chance >> >> to spend a bit more time on it)? > I think one way to prioritize them is by how likely they are to have > (more than a couple) active users. > > So recently I've done overlayfs because aside from btrfs that was > probably one of the really actively used filesystems that hadn't yet > been converted. And that did surface some regression > > So 9p, fat, devpts, f2fs, zonefs, ext2 are pretty obvious targets. > Judging from experience, the more mount options a filesystem has the > bigger the conversion patch will usually be. > > Another way is by function. For example, we expose mount_bdev() which is > basically the legacy version of get_tree_bdev(). And they sort of are > almost copies of each other. So converting all callers to the new mount > api means we can get rid of mount_bdev(). But that's like 25 of the > remaining 39. > > But in the end any filesystem that is converted is great. Thanks Christian, I know Bill was considering spending a bit of time on this and I may have some cycles myself in the not too distant future. But things change all too quickly so we'll need to see how it goes, ;) Ian I'll
On 30/10/23 22:28, Bill O'Donnell wrote: > On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 03:54:52PM +0800, Ian Kent wrote: >> On 27/10/23 22:33, Christian Brauner wrote: >>> Hey Linus, >>> >>> /* Summary */ >>> This ports autofs to the new mount api. The patchset has existed for >>> quite a while but never made it upstream. Ian picked it back up. >>> >>> This also fixes a bug where fs_param_is_fd() was passed a garbage >>> param->dirfd but it expected it to be set to the fd that was used to set >>> param->file otherwise result->uint_32 contains nonsense. So make sure >>> it's set. >>> >>> One less filesystem using the old mount api. We're getting there, albeit >>> rather slow. The last remaining major filesystem that hasn't converted >>> is btrfs. Patches exist - I even wrote them - but so far they haven't >>> made it upstream. >> Yes, looks like about 39 still to be converted. >> >> >> Just for information, excluding btrfs, what would you like to see as the >> >> priority for conversion (in case me or any of my colleagues get a chance >> >> to spend a bit more time on it)? > I'm just starting to have a look at zonefs as a candidate. > -Bill > And devpts looks fairly straight forward and is used a lot ... I'll see if I can get time to get that one done, ;) Ian
On 31/10/23 10:12, Ian Kent wrote: > On 30/10/23 22:28, Bill O'Donnell wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 03:54:52PM +0800, Ian Kent wrote: >>> On 27/10/23 22:33, Christian Brauner wrote: >>>> Hey Linus, >>>> >>>> /* Summary */ >>>> This ports autofs to the new mount api. The patchset has existed for >>>> quite a while but never made it upstream. Ian picked it back up. >>>> >>>> This also fixes a bug where fs_param_is_fd() was passed a garbage >>>> param->dirfd but it expected it to be set to the fd that was used >>>> to set >>>> param->file otherwise result->uint_32 contains nonsense. So make sure >>>> it's set. >>>> >>>> One less filesystem using the old mount api. We're getting there, >>>> albeit >>>> rather slow. The last remaining major filesystem that hasn't converted >>>> is btrfs. Patches exist - I even wrote them - but so far they haven't >>>> made it upstream. >>> Yes, looks like about 39 still to be converted. >>> >>> >>> Just for information, excluding btrfs, what would you like to see as >>> the >>> >>> priority for conversion (in case me or any of my colleagues get a >>> chance >>> >>> to spend a bit more time on it)? >> I'm just starting to have a look at zonefs as a candidate. >> -Bill >> > And devpts looks fairly straight forward and is used a lot ... I'll > see if Christian, David's original conversion patch for devpts looks like it's still relevant, it also looks fairly small to the point that I'm wondering if it's worth breaking it down into smaller patches. Would you be ok with me just doing a straight patch apply, detailed review and some testing before posting it? David, are you ok with me resurrecting your conversion patch and posting it on your behalf? Ian
Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> wrote: > David, are you ok with me resurrecting your conversion patch and posting it > on your behalf? Yes, that's fine. David
> Christian, David's original conversion patch for devpts looks like it's > > still relevant, it also looks fairly small to the point that I'm wondering > > if it's worth breaking it down into smaller patches. I vaguely remember that patch and no, for simple fses like devpts breaking this into smaller chunks is probably not worth it. These conversions patches often aren't easy to split nicely anyway. > Would you be ok with me just doing a straight patch apply, detailed review > > and some testing before posting it? Sure.