On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 05:31:18PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 11:31:45PM +0000, Williams, Dan J wrote: > >> Here is a status summary of the topic-branches nvdimm.git is tracking > >> for v4.4. Unless indicated these branches are not present in -next. > >> Please ACK, NAK, or ask for a re-post of any of the below to disposition > >> it for the merge window. > >> > >> === > >> for-4.4/dax-fixes: > >> === > > ... > >> Dave Chinner (5): > >> xfs: fix inode size update overflow in xfs_map_direct() > >> xfs: introduce BMAPI_ZERO for allocating zeroed extents > >> xfs: Don't use unwritten extents for DAX > >> xfs: DAX does not use IO completion callbacks > >> xfs: add ->pfn_mkwrite support for DAX > > > > Please drop these. They have not been reviewed yet, and because > > the changes affect more than just DAX (core XFS allocator > > functionality was changed) these need to go through the XFS tree. > > > > Ok, thanks for the heads up. For the get_user_pages() patches that > build on these fixes I'm assuming your review bandwidth is in short > supply to also give an XFS sign-off on those changes for 4.4? I'm not aware of any other patches that touch XFS. AFAIA, you haven't cc'd anything to xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx, so it's not on my radar... > I'm wondering if we can take a conservative step forward with those > patches for 4.4. if XFS and EXT4 interactions need more time to get > worked out, which I believe they do, I can conceive just turning on > get_user_pages() support for DAX-mappings of the raw block device. Regardless of the ext4/XFS status, isn't it a bit late to be proposing brand new stuff that nobody has had time to think about for the next merge window? Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
