The patch titled Subject: nilfs2: do not use yield() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is nilfs2-do-not-use-yield.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/nilfs2-do-not-use-yield.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/nilfs2-do-not-use-yield.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: nilfs2: do not use yield() Use cond_resched() instead of yield() in the loop of nilfs_transaction_lock() since the usage corresponds to the "be nice for others" case that the comment of yield() says. This removes the following checkpatch.pl warning: "WARNING: Using yield() is generally wrong. See yield() kernel-doc (sched/core.c)" Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464875891-5443-8-git-send-email-konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nilfs2/segment.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/nilfs2/segment.c~nilfs2-do-not-use-yield fs/nilfs2/segment.c --- a/fs/nilfs2/segment.c~nilfs2-do-not-use-yield +++ a/fs/nilfs2/segment.c @@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ static void nilfs_transaction_lock(struc nilfs_segctor_do_immediate_flush(sci); up_write(&nilfs->ns_segctor_sem); - yield(); + cond_resched(); } if (gcflag) ti->ti_flags |= NILFS_TI_GC; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are nilfs2-hide-function-name-argument-from-nilfs_error.patch nilfs2-add-nilfs_msg-message-interface.patch nilfs2-embed-a-back-pointer-to-super-block-instance-in-nilfs-object.patch nilfs2-reduce-bare-use-of-printk-with-nilfs_msg.patch nilfs2-replace-nilfs_warning-with-nilfs_msg.patch nilfs2-emit-error-message-when-i-o-error-is-detected.patch nilfs2-do-not-use-yield.patch nilfs2-refactor-parser-of-snapshot-mount-option.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html