Re: [PATCH 0/5] locks: move most locks_release_private calls outside of i_lock

From: Stephen Rothwell
Date: Tue Aug 12 2014 - 22:09:21 EST


Hi Jeff,

On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 19:47:36 -0400 Jeff Layton <jeff.layton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 08:28:27 +1000
> Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 10:48:08 -0400 Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Absent any objections, I'll plan to merge these for 3.18.
> >
> > This means that this patch set should *not* be in linux-next until after
> > (at least) v3.17-rc1 is released ... This s reinforced by the lack of
> > Acked-by, Reviewed-by and Tested-by tags ... (the addition of which would
> > presumably require the rebase (or rewrite) of a published git tree.)
>
> It would, but I sent a later reply that revised that statement.
>
> Trond pointed out that this problem can cause a user-triggerable oops,
> so we may have to merge it for 3.17 after all. With that in mind, I
> added these to my linux-next branch and will probably send a pull
> request before the window closes (assuming that there are no glaring
> problems with it).

OK, fine. I have merged it today in any case.

> While we're on the subject, we probably ought to rename my tree in your
> "Trees" file from "file-private-locks" to "file-locks" or something.
> File private locks (aka OFD locks) got merged in v3.15, but I have been
> collecting patches that touch fs/locks.c

OK, I will do that tomorrow.

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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