Re: [PATCH v7 00/19] gfs2: Fix mmap + page fault deadlocks

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Fri Sep 03 2021 - 11:52:22 EST


On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 12:53 PM Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> So there's a minor merge conflict between Christoph's iomap_iter
> conversion and this patch queue now, and I should probably clarify the
> description of "iomap: Add done_before argument to iomap_dio_rw" that
> Darrick ran into. Then there are the user copy issues that Al has
> pointed out. Fixing those will create superficial conflicts with this
> patch queue, but probably nothing serious.
>
> So how should I proceed: do you expect a v8 of this patch queue on top
> of the current mainline?

So if you rebase for fixes, it's going to be a "next merge window" thing again.

Personally, I'm ok with the series as is, and the conflict isn't an
issue. So I'd take it as is, and then people can fix up niggling
issues later.

But if somebody screams loudly..

Linus