From: Jan Kara Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] ext2: Preparation to remove BKL (v2) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:50:48 +0200 Message-ID: <20100414135048.GE3616@quack.suse.cz> References: <1271248719-21488-1-git-send-email-jblunck@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jan Kara , tytso@mit.edu, Linux-Kernel Mailinglist , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Frederic Weisbecker , Arnd Bergmann To: Jan Blunck Return-path: Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:50848 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755666Ab0DNNum (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:50:42 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1271248719-21488-1-git-send-email-jblunck@suse.de> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed 14-04-10 14:38:32, Jan Blunck wrote: > This is a series of patches in preparation to the removal of the big kernel > lock from ext2. It consists mostly of cleanup patches to later introduce a > spinlock to protect some of the superblock's fields against concurrent access. > With the spinlock in place we don't need to use the big kernel lock anymore. > > This series has been part of the BKL removal patches that I have posted in > November 2009 already. I've addressed the feedback kindly provided by Ogawa-san > by moving the ext2_write_super() out of ext2_setup_super(). > > Changes since v1: > - fix typo when setting MS_RDONLY > - take s_lock when setting EXT2_FEATURE_COMPAT_EXT_ATTR > - fold ext2_commit_super() into ext2_sync_super() > - include BKL removal patch OK, I've merged all the patches into my for_testing branch. When it survives some testing, I'll push them to for_next branch to be pushed for 2.6.35. Honza -- Jan Kara SUSE Labs, CR