Re: Reiser4 for 3.11

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On Monday 09 September 2013 at 12:44:01, Edward wrote:
> On 09/06/2013 07:36 AM, Ivan Shapovalov wrote:
> > Hi Edward!
> >
> > I'm sorry for the silence... The summer, as it usually happens, turned out to
> > be not-easier-than-studying-days (personal life and all), so unfortunately
> > there is not much progress with TRIM implementation for reiser4. There is some
> > code, but it's stability is zero.
> >
> > Anyway, here is my usual attempt to port reiser4 to next kernel. 3.11 got a
> > significant API change (readdir() of file_operations changed to iterate()),
> > and I'm unsure if I done that correctly. But it works, unlike TRIM. :)
> 
> 
> Cool. Thanks!!!
> 
> 
> >
> > (FYI, iterate() differs from readdir() mostly in that it works with a copy of
> > f_pos instead of with f->f_pos directly.)
> 
> 
> AFAIK they fixed races in readdir() and friends.
> I'll take a look at this more carefully...

Yes, I've seen that reason. I'd be grateful if you could check my patch - because,
again, I could have easily missed something wrt. locking and whether we can modify f->f_pos
in the code that fixes it up when entries are inserted/removed.

- Ivan

> 
> 
> Edward.

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