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Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2011 09:15:35 +0200
From: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@tonian.com>
To: Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu>
CC: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, peter honeyman <honey@citi.umich.edu>
Subject: Re: Block layout status
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On 2011-09-29 19:52, Jim Rees wrote:
> Since the call doesn't seem to be happening, here's my status.
> 
> On 16 Sep I sent these bug fixes to Trond for 3.1:
> 
> Jim Rees (2):
>   pnfsblock: fix size of upcall message     
>   pnfsblock: fix return code confusion          
> Peng Tao (3):
>   pnfsblock: fix NULL pointer dereference                
>   pnfsblock: fix writeback deadlock   
>   pnfsblock: add missing rpc_put_mount and path_put
> 
> These are the ones I think are important enough, and low enough risk to
> anyone else, that they should be considered for 3.1 even though it's late in
> the release cycle.  They have not shown up upstream.  Trond?
> 
> On 22 Sep I sent these to Trond for 3.2.  I believe these are all in Benny's
> tree now (sorry about that, Benny):
> 
> Jim Rees (2):
>   pnfsblock: fix return code confusion
>   pnfsblock: fix size of upcall message
> Peng Tao (8):
>   SUNRPC/NFS: make rpc pipe upcall generic
>   pnfsblock: add missing rpc_put_mount and path_put
>   pnfs: make _set_lo_fail generic
> - pnfsblock: init pg_bsize properly
>   pnfs: recoalesce when ld write pagelist fails
>   pnfs: recoalesce when ld read pagelist fails
>   pnfsblock: fix NULL pointer dereference
>   pnfsblock: fix writeback deadlock
> 
> This includes all the bug fixes for 3.1 plus some others that are less
> important or higher risk.  Notice that "init pg_bsize properly" is wrong and
> should not be used.  Benny, you may want to remove this from your tree, or I
> can send a revert patch.

No need.  I'll just remove it from my tree.

> 
> Missing from these is one more, "nfs4: serialize layoutcommit" that's
> important but I somehow missed it.
> 
> The recent automount changes really screwed us up but I just built a kernel
> from Linus's latest, which includes the patches from Trond, and it passes
> all tests so I think we're still ok for 3.1.

Great.  I'll rebase and release accordingly.

Benny

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