On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 12:25:55PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 11:49 AM Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Said that, it does appear to survive all beating, and it does fix > > a regression introduced in this cycle, so, provided that amount of > > comments in there is OK with you... > > Ok, considering Greg's note, I've pulled it. It's early in the last > week, if something comes up we can still fix it. > > That said, considering that I think the only use-case was that odd > /proc splice use, and the really special WSL2 thing, and both of those > are verified, it does sound safe to pull. > > Famous last words... > > Al, since you're around, would you mind looking at the two > DCACHE_DONTCACHE patches too? Honestly, since they seem to be an issue > only for DAX, and only for DAX policy changes, I don't consider them > critical for 5.10, but they've been around for a while now. Umm... I've got fs: Handle I_DONTCACHE in iput_final() instead of generic_drop_inode() and fs: Kill DCACHE_DONTCACHE dentry even if DCACHE_REFERENCED is set in "to apply" pile; if that's what you are talking about, I don't think they are anywhere critical enough for 5.10-final, but I might be missing something... Al, still buried under piles of email ;-/
