Re: [PATCH BUGFIX 0/3] three fixes for the function bfq_requests_merged
From: Paolo Valente
Date: Thu May 31 2018 - 10:51:02 EST
> Il giorno 31 mag 2018, alle ore 16:48, Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:
>
> On 5/31/18 7:23 AM, Paolo Valente wrote:
>> Hi Jens,
>> this series fixes three bugs in bfq_requests_merged. In more detail:
>>
>> - two linked bugs, with the first (critical: wrong lock) hidden by the
>> second (less critical: wrong check that made the body of the
>> function not be executed at all)
>> - a rather minor bug: superflous code
>
> Patch #2 doesn't apply on for-4.18/block.
Yep, it gave some problems to me too, because we happened to move this
patch around by email.
> I hand applied it, all
> 3 are queued up now.
>
Thanks for the patience and for queueing these fixes.
Paolo
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> Jens Axboe
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