On Tue, 3 Jun 2025 at 13:47, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Objections? The thing I really want is clear locking rules for that
> stuff. Reduced contention on mount_lock and fewer increments of its
> seqcount component wouldn't hurt either, but that's secondary...
No objection at all, as long as you also change the name of the flag.
Which I assume you were planning on doing anyway.
We've occasionally had various flags that had the same "namespace"
prefix but were split across multiple fields, and it's always painful
and very confusing.
Linus
