[dm-devel] [PATCH v2 2/4] block: add private field to struct keyslot_manager

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 09:46:30PM +0000, Satya Tangirala wrote:
> Add a (void *) pointer to struct keyslot_manager that the owner of the
> struct can use for any purpose it wants.
> 
> Right now, the struct keyslot_manager is expected to be embedded directly
> into other structs (and the owner of the keyslot_manager would use
> container_of() to access any other data the owner needs). However, this
> might take up more space than is acceptable, and it would be better to be
> able to add only a pointer to a struct keyslot_manager into other structs
> rather than embed the entire struct directly. But container_of() can't be
> used when only the pointer to the keyslot_manager is embded. The primary
> motivation of this patch is to get around that issue.

No, please don't bloat the structure.  If some weird caller doesn't
like the embedding it can create a container structure with the
blk_keyslot_manager structure and a backpointer.