From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>,
"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, gregf@hq.newdream.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs/locks.c: prepare for BKL removal
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 22:09:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201009212209.51956.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1009210910410.13310@cobra.newdream.net>
On Tuesday 21 September 2010 18:12:07 Sage Weil wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Sep 2010, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 20:59:01 -0700 (PDT) Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > I suspect the easiest thing is to leave Ceph out of this stage of your
> > > series, I'll switch lock_kernel() to lock_flocks() once that exists
> > > upstream. Unless there is a better way?
> >
> > Maybe someone could write a trivial implementation of lock_flocks() (i.e.
> > one that does not make any changes to behaviour) and ask Linus to take it
> > now in preparation for the next merge window (he has done that before).
> > That way, more of this could be put into individual other trees and avoid
> > more conflicts ...
>
> This sounds like the easiest solution to me. Something as simple as
>
> #define lock_flocks lock_kernel
> #define unlock_flocks unlock_kernel
>
> in fs.h?
Sounds fine to me. I don't think it's necessary but if you prefer to do
it, you can have my Ack.
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-21 20:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-18 13:09 [PATCH] fs/locks.c: prepare for BKL removal Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-18 13:48 ` Matthew Wilcox
2010-09-19 19:34 ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-09-20 3:59 ` Sage Weil
2010-09-20 6:07 ` Stephen Rothwell
2010-09-21 16:12 ` Sage Weil
2010-09-21 20:09 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2010-09-23 3:42 ` Sage Weil
2010-09-23 6:40 ` Arnd Bergmann
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