On Dec 3, 2016, at 3:55 AM, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 09:53:08PM +0000, Dilger, Andreas wrote:
>> Al,
>> Greg recently raised the issue of what still needs to be done to
>> move the Lustre code out of staging/ and into the fs/ tree.
>>
>> James has been doing a great job of cleaning up various checkpatch
>> issues and keeping the code updated with the latest fixes, but we
>> were wondering what you were aware of that needed to be cleaned
>> up in Lustre?
>
> Is the whole "mixing kernel structures in userspace structures" all
> resolved now? For some reason I thought that you had kernel locks being
> passed to userspace and then back into the kernel, but it's been a long
> time since I last looked...
While we certainly had our share of mixing user/kernelspace structures,
I don't think we ever passed anything with locks around back and forth.
I just did a brief check and I don't see anything glaring on this particular front.
> If you feel you are ready for a "real" review, I'll be glad to go over
> the code before the vfs people look at it, just let me know. No need to
> bother them if you still have basic things wrong that I can find…
I think this would be beneficial at this stage.
Thanks.
Bye,
Oleg--
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