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Peter Anvin" , kreijack@inwind.it, David Sterba , Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , Ard Biesheuvel , Huacai Chen , WANG Xuerui , Madhavan Srinivasan , Michael Ellerman , Nicholas Piggin , "Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" , Paul Walmsley , Palmer Dabbelt , Albert Ou , Alexandre Ghiti , Heiko Carstens , Vasily Gorbik , Alexander Gordeev , Christian Borntraeger , Sven Schnelle , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Borislav Petkov , Dave Hansen , x86@kernel.org, Herbert Xu , Dan Williams , Chris Mason , David Sterba , Arnd Bergmann , Song Liu , Yu Kuai , Li Nan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, loongarch@lists.linux.dev, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org References: <20260512052230.2947683-1-hch@lst.de> <20260512052230.2947683-2-hch@lst.de> <20260512114231.GG2558453@suse.cz> <20260513054742.GA1018@lst.de> <0a8d1ff4-f5a2-49e9-aa45-d25dbe4ded40@libero.it> <20260515043705.GA3855@lst.de> <34C16854-1065-4542-8836-DDED58EC1844@zytor.com> <20260518051207.GB9374@lst.de> <20260521171730.7872482df453975cf60ce7dc@linux-foundation.org> Content-Language: en-US From: Qu Wenruo Autocrypt: addr=wqu@suse.com; keydata= xsBNBFnVga8BCACyhFP3ExcTIuB73jDIBA/vSoYcTyysFQzPvez64TUSCv1SgXEByR7fju3o 8RfaWuHCnkkea5luuTZMqfgTXrun2dqNVYDNOV6RIVrc4YuG20yhC1epnV55fJCThqij0MRL 1NxPKXIlEdHvN0Kov3CtWA+R1iNN0RCeVun7rmOrrjBK573aWC5sgP7YsBOLK79H3tmUtz6b 9Imuj0ZyEsa76Xg9PX9Hn2myKj1hfWGS+5og9Va4hrwQC8ipjXik6NKR5GDV+hOZkktU81G5 gkQtGB9jOAYRs86QG/b7PtIlbd3+pppT0gaS+wvwMs8cuNG+Pu6KO1oC4jgdseFLu7NpABEB AAHNGFF1IFdlbnJ1byA8d3F1QHN1c2UuY29tPsLAlAQTAQgAPgIbAwULCQgHAgYVCAkKCwIE FgIDAQIeAQIXgBYhBC3fcuWlpVuonapC4cI9kfOhJf6oBQJnEXVgBQkQ/lqxAAoJEMI9kfOh Jf6o+jIH/2KhFmyOw4XWAYbnnijuYqb/obGae8HhcJO2KIGcxbsinK+KQFTSZnkFxnbsQ+VY fvtWBHGt8WfHcNmfjdejmy9si2jyy8smQV2jiB60a8iqQXGmsrkuR+AM2V360oEbMF3gVvim 2VSX2IiW9KERuhifjseNV1HLk0SHw5NnXiWh1THTqtvFFY+CwnLN2GqiMaSLF6gATW05/sEd V17MdI1z4+WSk7D57FlLjp50F3ow2WJtXwG8yG8d6S40dytZpH9iFuk12Sbg7lrtQxPPOIEU rpmZLfCNJJoZj603613w/M8EiZw6MohzikTWcFc55RLYJPBWQ+9puZtx1DopW2jOwE0EWdWB rwEIAKpT62HgSzL9zwGe+WIUCMB+nOEjXAfvoUPUwk+YCEDcOdfkkM5FyBoJs8TCEuPXGXBO Cl5P5B8OYYnkHkGWutAVlUTV8KESOIm/KJIA7jJA+Ss9VhMjtePfgWexw+P8itFRSRrrwyUf E+0WcAevblUi45LjWWZgpg3A80tHP0iToOZ5MbdYk7YFBE29cDSleskfV80ZKxFv6koQocq0 vXzTfHvXNDELAuH7Ms/WJcdUzmPyBf3Oq6mKBBH8J6XZc9LjjNZwNbyvsHSrV5bgmu/THX2n g/3be+iqf6OggCiy3I1NSMJ5KtR0q2H2Nx2Vqb1fYPOID8McMV9Ll6rh8S8AEQEAAcLAfAQY AQgAJgIbDBYhBC3fcuWlpVuonapC4cI9kfOhJf6oBQJnEXWBBQkQ/lrSAAoJEMI9kfOhJf6o cakH+QHwDszsoYvmrNq36MFGgvAHRjdlrHRBa4A1V1kzd4kOUokongcrOOgHY9yfglcvZqlJ qfa4l+1oxs1BvCi29psteQTtw+memmcGruKi+YHD7793zNCMtAtYidDmQ2pWaLfqSaryjlzR /3tBWMyvIeWZKURnZbBzWRREB7iWxEbZ014B3gICqZPDRwwitHpH8Om3eZr7ygZck6bBa4MU o1XgbZcspyCGqu1xF/bMAY2iCDcq6ULKQceuKkbeQ8qxvt9hVxJC2W3lHq8dlK1pkHPDg9wO JoAXek8MF37R8gpLoGWl41FIUb3hFiu3zhDDvslYM4BmzI18QgQTQnotJH8= In-Reply-To: <20260521171730.7872482df453975cf60ce7dc@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 在 2026/5/22 09:47, Andrew Morton 写道: > On Wed, 20 May 2026 18:11:09 +0930 Qu Wenruo wrote: > >> >> >> 在 2026/5/18 14:42, Christoph Hellwig 写道: >>> On Fri, May 15, 2026 at 12:59:34PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >>>> I don't think this is a good idea. Error out; it is the btrfs maintainers' job to ensure user data isn't lost. >>>> >>>> The RAID-6 code has *never* supported only 3 units, and if it ever worked for *any* of the implementations it was purely by accident. Speaking as the original author I should know; this was deliberate as in some cases the degenerate case (3) would have required extra trays in the code to no user benefit. >>>> >>>> I would not be surprised if the kernel crashed or corrupted the page cache in that case. >>> >>> It does, that's why I wanted to exclude it. Anyway, for the about to be >>> resent version I'll drop this btrfs patch over the stated objection and >>> will otherwise not change anything. This means the (IMHO hypothetical) >>> users of this configuration will get a WARN_ON_ONCE triggered, but >>> otherwise keep working (or rather not working) as before. >>> >> >> For the btrfs part, I believe I can get the current 2-disk-raid5 and >> 3-disk-raid6 to fallback to raid1 inside btrfs. >> >> I hope the btrfs part can be finished and reach the next merge window, >> but I'm not 100% sure. >> >> What is the planned cycle to merge this raid5/6 cleanup? > > At present it's on track for the 7.2-rc1 merge window. Does that suit? The current btrfs fix (*) is pretty small, I believe we can get it into the next merge window, as long as we got enough review on it. *: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/a1d63733465229936351804f3760803d5894a962.1779274630.git.wqu@suse.com/T/#u