> 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 think he means the use of linux list structures as a parameter for the ioctls in LNet selftest. The work is being done under: https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/browse/LU-8915 No patch ready just yet. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
