Re: [PATCH] xfs: always free inline data before resetting inode fork during ifree

From: Luis R. Rodriguez
Date: Tue Mar 27 2018 - 15:54:44 EST


On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 09:06:37AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> So by no means the MM backports were reviewed by me. And considering how hard
> it is to get any review for MM patches in general I strongly suspect that
> others didn't review either.
>
> In general I am quite skeptical about the automagic backports
> selections, to be honest. MM patches should be reasonably good at
> selecting stable backports and adding more patches on top just risks
> regressions.

BTW other than suggesting we needing *actual review* of the MM patches, are
there known unit tests which could be run as well? Thinking long term.

Luis