On Wed, Mar 07 2018, Bart Van Assche wrote: > Hello Jens, > > As you probably know there is considerable confusion in the block > layer core and in block drivers about how to protect queue flag > changes against concurrent modifications. Some code protects these > changes with the queue lock, other code uses atomic operations and > some code does not protect queue flag changes against concurrent > changes at all. Hence this patch series that protects all queue flag > changes consistently with the queue lock and that removes functions > that are not safe in a concurrent context from the public block layer > header files. > > Please consider these patches for kernel v4.17. > > Note: it may be a good idea to postpone patch 11 until after the > kernel v4.17 merge window to avoid merge conflicts. Applied for 4.17. Not too worried about a conflict with that patch, so applied 11/11 as well. -- Jens Axboe
