From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Kent Subject: Re: [patch 4/9] vfs: add lockdep annotation to s_vfs_rename_key for ecryptfs Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:40:08 +0800 Message-ID: <4B15C578.8030503@themaw.net> References: <200911172256.nAHMuTrP027560@imap1.linux-foundation.org> <200912020009.nB209Nqx022549@agora.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu> <20091201161345.bd3dd2b1.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andrew Morton , Erez Zadok , viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, rdreier@cisco.com, kirkland@canonical.com, tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com To: Sage Weil Return-path: Received: from outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out4.iinet.net.au ([203.59.1.104]:29653 "EHLO outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out4.iinet.net.au" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750876AbZLBBkH (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Dec 2009 20:40:07 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Sage Weil wrote: > On Tue, 1 Dec 2009, Andrew Morton wrote: >> Quite a VFS patch backlog here, some held over from 2.6.32: >> >> vfs-fix-vfs_rename_dir-for-fs_rename_does_d_move-filesystems.patch > > This problem will bite ceph without this patch. I could work around it, > but it would be nice to fix the real bug. Al was worried about nfs: > >> It's _probably_ OK now, but I'd really like to think about NFS >> behaviour. There are subtle traps in that area. > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121666695629006&w=2 > >> vfs-make-real_lookup-do-dentry-revalidation-with-i_mutex-held.patch >> vfs-clean-up-real_lookup.patch > > These were waiting on the autofs4 locking changes and legacy autofs > removal, which Ian has posted and appear to be ready. That's right. The locking changes were sent to Andrew some time ago and they are present in the mm kernel. I've been side tracked and only recently posted the autofs removal patches, no-one objected and I need to send them to Andrew, as in my normal process. Ian