Re: [PATCH 0/4] LightNVM patches for 4.5-rc

From: Matias Bjorling
Date: Fri Feb 26 2016 - 13:21:45 EST


On 02/20/2016 08:52 AM, Matias BjÃrling wrote:
> Hi Jens,
>
> Sorry, I was living in a fairy tail land, where patches are
> miraculously applied without being sent upstream. Leading me to test
> on top of the wrong base.
>
> I was missing three patches, which I should have sent for previous -rc
> round.
>
> The first patch fixes taking a normal spinlock in interrupt context.
> Second and third are cleanups, and at last the patch that previously
> did not compile.
>
> Thanks,
> Matias
>
> Javier GonzÃlez (2):
> lightnvm: update closed list outside of intr context
> lightnvm: generalize rrpc ppa calculations
>
> Matias BjÃrling (2):
> lightnvm: rename ->nr_pages to ->nr_sects
> lightnvm: remove struct nvm_dev->total_blocks
>
> drivers/lightnvm/core.c | 6 +--
> drivers/lightnvm/gennvm.c | 7 ++--
> drivers/lightnvm/rrpc.c | 98 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
> drivers/lightnvm/rrpc.h | 15 ++++++--
> include/linux/lightnvm.h | 2 +-
> 5 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-)
>

Hi Jens,

Please consider to apply these for the next -rc. If only part of them,
then just the first path, as it fixes a problem when blocks are closed
during a write.

Thanks,
Matias