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From: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
To: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@collabora.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	 Khazhismel Kumykov <khazhy@google.com>,
	Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	kernel@collabora.com,
	 linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] shmem: Introduce /sys/fs/tmpfs support
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2022 01:58:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOQ4uxhLQp4ujuR8k16k9EfeOC2TiwwiCeVGYOzpViwRpa5oqw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220322222738.182974-3-krisman@collabora.com>

[+fsdevel please CC on next versions]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 12:27 AM Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
<krisman@collabora.com> wrote:
>
> In order to expose tmpfs statistics on sysfs, add the boilerplate code
> to create the /sys/fs/tmpfs structure.  Other filesystems usually do
> /sys/fs/<fs>/<disk>, but since this is a nodev filesystem, I'm proposing
> to use fsid as <disk>.

I am proposing st_dev minor.

>
> This takes care of not exposing SB_NOUSER mounts.  I don't think we have
> a usecase for showing them and, since they don't appear elsewhere, they
> might be confusing to users.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@collabora.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/shmem_fs.h |  4 +++
>  mm/shmem.c               | 73 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  2 files changed, 76 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
[...]

> +static int shmem_register_sysfs(struct super_block *sb)
> +{
> +       int err;
> +       struct shmem_sb_info *sbinfo = SHMEM_SB(sb);
> +       __kernel_fsid_t fsid = uuid_to_fsid(sb->s_uuid.b);
> +
> +       init_completion(&sbinfo->s_kobj_unregister);
> +       err = kobject_init_and_add(&sbinfo->s_kobj, &tmpfs_sb_ktype, shmem_root,
> +                                  "%x%x", fsid.val[0], fsid.val[1]);

uuid (and fsid) try to be unique across tmpfs instances from different times.
You don't need that.
I think you'd rather use s_dev (minor number) which is unique among all tmpfs
instances at a given time and also much easier from user scripts to read from
(e.g. stat or /proc/self/mountinfo).

That's btw the same number is used as an entry in /sys/fs/fuse/connections
(fusectl pseudo fs).

Thanks,
Amir.


  reply	other threads:[~2022-03-22 23:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-22 22:27 [PATCH 0/3] shmem: Allow userspace monitoring of tmpfs for lack of space Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2022-03-22 22:27 ` [PATCH 1/3] shmem: Keep track of out-of-memory and out-of-space errors Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2022-03-22 22:27 ` [PATCH 2/3] shmem: Introduce /sys/fs/tmpfs support Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2022-03-22 23:58   ` Amir Goldstein [this message]
2022-03-23 18:04     ` Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2022-03-22 22:27 ` [PATCH 3/3] shmem: Expose space and accounting error count Gabriel Krisman Bertazi

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