Re: [GIT PULL] bcachefs

Kees Cook
2023-07-12T19:48:59Z

On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 10:54:59PM -0400, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> - Prereq patch series has been pruned down a bit more; also Mike
> Snitzer suggested putting those patches in their own branch:
>
> https://evilpiepirate.org/git/bcachefs.git/log/?h=bcachefs-prereqs
>
> "iov_iter: copy_folio_from_iter_atomic()" was dropped and replaced
> with willy's "iov_iter: Handle compound highmem pages in
> copy_page_from_iter_atomic()"; he said he'd try to send this for -rc4
> since it's technically a bug fix; in the meantime, it'll be getting
> more testing from my users.
>
> The two lockdep patches have been dropped for now; the
> bcachefs-for-upstream branch is switched back to
> lockdep_set_novalidate_class() for btree node locks.
>
> six locks, mean and variance have been moved into fs/bcachefs/ for
> now; this means there's a new prereq patch to export
> osq_(lock|unlock)
>
> The remaining prereq patches are pretty trivial, with the exception
> of "block: Don't block on s_umount from __invalidate_super()". I
> would like to get a reviewed-by for that patch, and it wouldn't hurt
> for others.
>
> previously posting:
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-bcachefs/20230509165657.1735798-1-kent.overstreet@linux.dev/T/#m34397a4d39f5988cc0b635e29f70a6170927746f

Can you send these prereqs out again, with maintainers CCed
appropriately? (I think some feedback from the prior revision needs to
be addressed first, though. For example, __flatten already exists, etc.)

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Kees Cook