Re: [PATCH 1/2] liveupdate: prevent double management of files

[Pasha Tatashin]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2026 at 2:40 PM Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Tue, 24 Mar 2026 09:51:34 +0100 Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > > > So, I'm not happy about I_LUO_MANAGED. I don't think we need driver
> > > > specific stuff in struct inode and not in i_state. Track this in the
> > > > driver please. I don't want this precedent and I'd rather have you get
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> Well dang, I just merged v2 but Christian wasn't cc'ed.
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> > > I am planning to use an xarray in the next version.
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> That's what v2 did, and I_LUO_MANAGED has gone away.
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> Christian, does v2 look OK?  It's at
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260323203145.148057-1-pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx

Yes, v2 is fine. Here, we discussed about the previous approach, this
is one of the reason why v2 exists: not to modify inode, and also not
to rely on inode being different for every preserved file.

Thanks,
Pasha

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