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From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Sun, 15 Nov 2020 08:56:44 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] seq_file: add seq_read_iter
To:     Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        kys@microsoft.com, haiyangz@microsoft.com,
        Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>,
        Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>, linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org
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On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 7:54 AM Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> OK, I think I understand what's going on.  Could you check if
> reverting the variant in -next and applying the following instead
> fixes what you are seeing?

Side note: if this ends up working, can you add a lot of comments
about this thing (both in the code and the commit message)? It
confused both Christoph and me, and clearly you were stumped too.
That's not a great sign.

                  Linus