On Fri, 2019-04-26 at 19:51 +0100, Al Viro wrote:
 On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 02:28:42PM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
 > name_snapshot will snapshot the current contents of a dentry's name for
 > later consumption. Several of those users end up needing to do a strlen
 > on the resulting string later. We already have that info in the original
 > dentry though, so we can do this a bit more efficiently by stuffing the
 > name length into the name_snapshot as well.
 > 
 > This is not well tested, but it built and booted. Do we have a testsuite
 > that exercises the fsnotify code, in particular?
 
 FWIW, my variant sits in vfs.git(a)work.dcache.
 
 > Jeff Layton (5):
 >   dcache: track the length of the string in struct name_snapshot
 >   fsnotify: have fsnotify_move take a struct qstr instead of a string
 >   fsnotify: have fsnotify() take a qstr instead of a string
 >   fsnotify: change ->handle_event and send_to_group to take a qstr
 >   audit: fix audit_compare_dname_path to take a qstr
 > 
 >  fs/dcache.c                          | 11 +++++++----
 >  fs/debugfs/inode.c                   |  2 +-
 >  fs/kernfs/file.c                     |  6 ++++--
 >  fs/namei.c                           |  4 ++--
 >  fs/notify/dnotify/dnotify.c          |  2 +-
 >  fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c        |  2 +-
 >  fs/notify/fsnotify.c                 |  8 ++++----
 >  fs/notify/inotify/inotify.h          |  2 +-
 >  fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c |  6 +++---
 >  fs/overlayfs/export.c                |  2 +-
 >  include/linux/dcache.h               |  2 +-
 >  include/linux/fsnotify.h             | 17 ++++++++---------
 >  include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h     |  6 +++---
 >  kernel/audit.h                       |  3 ++-
 >  kernel/audit_fsnotify.c              |  5 +++--
 >  kernel/audit_tree.c                  |  2 +-
 >  kernel/audit_watch.c                 |  4 ++--
 >  kernel/auditfilter.c                 |  7 ++++---
 >  kernel/auditsc.c                     |  7 +++----
 >  19 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)
 
  fs/dcache.c                          | 14 ++++++--------
  fs/debugfs/inode.c                   |  2 +-
  fs/kernfs/file.c                     |  6 ++++--
  fs/namei.c                           |  4 ++--
  fs/notify/dnotify/dnotify.c          |  2 +-
  fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c        |  2 +-
  fs/notify/fsnotify.c                 |  8 ++++----
  fs/notify/inotify/inotify.h          |  2 +-
  fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c |  6 +++---
  fs/overlayfs/export.c                |  2 +-
  include/linux/dcache.h               |  2 +-
  include/linux/fsnotify.h             | 10 +++++-----
  include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h     |  6 +++---
  kernel/audit.h                       |  2 +-
  kernel/audit_fsnotify.c              |  2 +-
  kernel/audit_tree.c                  |  2 +-
  kernel/audit_watch.c                 |  4 ++--
  kernel/auditfilter.c                 |  6 +++---
  kernel/auditsc.c                     |  4 ++--
  19 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)
 
 here... 
Pretty similar :)
Let's just go with yours then, since it breaks out some of the strlen
changes into separate patches.
Cheers,
-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton(a)kernel.org>