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From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Sun, 16 Feb 2020 21:08:18 -0800
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Subject: Re: Linux 5.6-rc2
To:     Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
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On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 7:02 PM Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> wrote:
>
> I assume Filipe wrote this based on my patch here
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/josef/btrfs-next.git/commit/?id=c821555d2b9733d8f483c9e79481c7209e1c1fb0
>
> which makes it so we can allocate safely in this context, but that patch hasn't
> made it's way to you yet.  Do you want it now?  It was prep for a much less safe
> patchset, but is fine by itself.  Thanks,

I assume it's either that, or revert 28553fa992cb and do it differently..

I'll leave that whole decision to the btrfs people who actually know
the code and the situations and what the alternative would look
like...

               Linus