Re: [PATCH v2 01/13] fs: export mnt_idmap_get/mnt_idmap_put

From: Aleksandr Mikhalitsyn
Date: Mon Jun 05 2023 - 10:07:14 EST


On Mon, Jun 5, 2023 at 3:53 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Fri, Jun 02, 2023 at 02:40:27PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 05:33:03PM +0200, Alexander Mikhalitsyn wrote:
> > > These helpers are required to support idmapped mounts in the Cephfs.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> >
> > It's fine by me to export them. The explicit contract is that _nothing
> > and absolutely nothing_ outside of core VFS code can directly peak into
> > struct mnt_idmap internals. That's the only invariant we care about.o
>
> It would be good if we could keep all these somewhat internal exports
> as EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL, though.

Dear Christoph,

Well noticed! Thanks, I will do it.

Kind regards,
Alex

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