Re: lease and lock patches

["J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>]

Would it still be possible to merge this for 2.6.23?  They've been
through linux-fsdevel, Christoph has taken a pass through them, and I
don't know of any unaddressed problems.

--b.

On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 07:34:57PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> Please pull from the 'for-linus' branch at
> 
>   git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux.git for-linus
> 
> for a series of patches which add a setlease() file method.  The
> longer-term goal is to allow cluster and network filesystems to give out
> consistent leases when possible, in particular to allow nfsd to give out
> delegations on cluster filesystems.  For now, though, we're using this
> just to disallow leases selectively on certain filesystems (nfs and gfs2
> for now) where they don't make sense.
> 
> Also includes some minor locks.c cleanup.
> 
> J. Bruce Fields (9):
>       locks: convert an -EINVAL return to a BUG
>       locks: clean up lease_alloc()
>       locks: share more common lease code
>       locks: rename lease functions to reflect locks.c conventions
>       locks: provide a file lease method enabling cluster-coherent leases
>       locks: export setlease to filesystems
>       nfs: disable leases over NFS
>       locks: make posix_test_lock() interface more consistent
>       locks: fix vfs_test_lock() comment
> 
> Marc Eshel (1):
>       gfs2: stop giving out non-cluster-coherent leases
> 
> david m. richter (1):
>       leases: minor break_lease() comment clarification
> 
>  fs/gfs2/ops_file.c  |   24 +++++++++++
>  fs/locks.c          |  112 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
>  fs/nfs/file.c       |   16 +++++++-
>  fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c |   10 ++--
>  include/linux/fs.h  |    4 +-
>  5 files changed, 105 insertions(+), 61 deletions(-)
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