On Wed, 2013-08-28 at 18:40 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Just FYI: I've merged two preparatory patches in my tree for the whole > lockref thing. Instead of applying your four patches as-is during the > merge window, I ended up writing two patches that introduce the > concept and use it in the dentry code *without* introducing any of the > new semantics yet. > > Waiman, I attributed the patches to you, even if they don't actually > look much like any of the patches you sent out. And because I was > trying very hard to make sure that no actual semantics changed, my > version doesn't have the dget_parent() lockless update code, for > example. I literally just did a search-and-replace of "->d_count" with > "->d_lockref.count" and then I fixed up a few things by hand (undid > one replacement in a comment, and used the helper functions where they > were semantically identical). > > You don't have to rewrite your patches if you don't want to, I'm > planning on cherry-picking the actual code changes during the merge > window. I've somewhat lost track of this, will I need some arch support for powerpc ? Cheers, Ben. -- 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
