Re: [git pull] vfs patches from Miklos

From: Al Viro
Date: Mon Jun 01 2020 - 20:09:54 EST


On Mon, Jun 01, 2020 at 04:46:45PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 11:40 AM Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Assorted patches from Miklos; an interesting part here is /proc/mounts
> > stuff...
>
> You know, this could really have done with more of a real description, Al...

Umm... Assorted VFS work:
* faster /proc/*/mount* iterator - insert a cursor into the list
instead of rescan in event of any change
* several mount options parser cleanups
* statx patches, including the ability to report mnt_id on statx(2)
* introduction of faccessat2(2)
* utimensat(2) with AT_EMPTY_PATH
* allow creating whiteouts (via mknod(2)) for non-root
* an aio bugfix
That stuff is really all over the place - there are several groups of related
patches, but the above is about as far as it can be compacted...