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From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Fri, 3 Sep 2021 11:47:12 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 00/19] gfs2: Fix mmap + page fault deadlocks
To:     Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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        Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
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On Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 11:28 AM Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
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> FWIW, my objections regarding the calling conventions are still there.

So I'm happy to further change the calling conventions, but by now
_that_ part is most definitely a "not this merge window". The need for
that ternary state is still there.

It might go away in the future, but I think that's literally that: a
future cleanup. Not really related to the problem at hand.

              Linus