On Wed 14-04-10 14:38:32, Jan Blunck wrote: > This is a series of patches in preparation to the removal of the big kernel > lock from ext2. It consists mostly of cleanup patches to later introduce a > spinlock to protect some of the superblock's fields against concurrent access. > With the spinlock in place we don't need to use the big kernel lock anymore. > > This series has been part of the BKL removal patches that I have posted in > November 2009 already. I've addressed the feedback kindly provided by Ogawa-san > by moving the ext2_write_super() out of ext2_setup_super(). > > Changes since v1: > - fix typo when setting MS_RDONLY > - take s_lock when setting EXT2_FEATURE_COMPAT_EXT_ATTR > - fold ext2_commit_super() into ext2_sync_super() > - include BKL removal patch OK, I've merged all the patches into my for_testing branch. When it survives some testing, I'll push them to for_next branch to be pushed for 2.6.35. Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
