Re: [PATCH v4 00/12] hide ->i_state behind accessors

[Mateusz Guzik]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2025 at 2:19 PM Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 03:58:48PM +0200, Mateusz Guzik wrote:
> > This is generated against:
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git/commit/?h=vfs-6.18.inode.refcount.preliminaries
>
> Given how late in the cycle it is I'm going to push this into the v6.19
> merge window. You don't need to resend. We might get by with applying
> and rebasing given that it's fairly mechanincal overall. Objections
> Mateusz?

First a nit: if the prelim branch is going in, you may want to adjust
the dump_inode commit to use icount_read instead of
atomic_read(&inode->i_count));

Getting this in *now* is indeed not worth it, so I support the idea.