Re: [PATCH v1 03/19] fs/anon_inodes: new interface to create new inode

On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 04:30:07PM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:

From: Gioh Kim <redacted>

The anon_inodes has already complete interfaces to create manage
many anonymous inodes but don't have interface to get
new inode. Other sub-modules can create anonymous inode
without creating and mounting it's own pseudo filesystem.

IMO that's a bad idea.  In case of aio "creating and mounting" takes this:
static struct dentry *aio_mount(struct file_system_type *fs_type,
                                int flags, const char *dev_name, void *data)  
{
        static const struct dentry_operations ops = {
                .d_dname        = simple_dname,
        };
        return mount_pseudo(fs_type, "aio:", NULL, &ops, AIO_RING_MAGIC);
}
and
        static struct file_system_type aio_fs = {
                .name           = "aio",
                .mount          = aio_mount,
                .kill_sb        = kill_anon_super,
        };
        aio_mnt = kern_mount(&aio_fs);

All of 12 lines.  Your export is not much shorter.  To quote old mail on
the same topic:

Note that anon_inodes.c reason to exist was "it's for situations where
all context lives on struct file and we don't need separate inode for
them".  Going from that to "it happens to contain a handy function for inode
allocation"...