Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933201Ab0KQAuq (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:50:46 -0500 Received: from e5.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.145]:44982 "EHLO e5.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757545Ab0KQAuo (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:50:44 -0500 From: "Tim Pepper" Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:50:40 -0800 To: Nick Piggin Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch 08/28] fs: change d_hash for rcu-walk Message-ID: <20101117005040.GC22789@tpepper-t61p.dolavim.us> References: <20101116140900.039761100@kernel.dk> <20101116142028.938211454@kernel.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101116142028.938211454@kernel.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1049 Lines: 27 On Wed 17 Nov at 01:09:08 +1100 npiggin@kernel.dk said: > Change d_hash so it may be called from lock-free RCU lookups. See similar > patch for d_compare for details. > > For in-tree filesystems, this is just a mechanical change. > > Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin > > --- > Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 5 +++-- > Documentation/filesystems/porting | 7 +++++++ > Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 8 ++++++-- > fs/dcache.c | 2 +- > include/linux/dcache.h | 3 ++- And maybe I'm lazy or something, but it seems like it'd make the reviewing easier if the above core hunks were formatted in the email before/above the pages and pages of per fs changes. -- Tim Pepper IBM Linux Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/