Re: [PATCH v7 1/4] spinlock: A new lockref structure for lockless update of refcount

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

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.