linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH BUGFIX 0/3] three fixes for the function bfq_requests

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Date:   Thu, 31 May 2018 08:48:58 -0600
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:     Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@...aro.org>
Cc:     linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        ulf.hansson@...aro.org, broonie@...nel.org,
        linus.walleij@...aro.org, bfq-iosched@...glegroups.com,
        oleksandr@...alenko.name, filippo.muzzini@...look.it
Subject: Re: [PATCH BUGFIX 0/3] three fixes for the function
 bfq_requests_merged

On 5/31/18 7:23 AM, Paolo Valente wrote:
> Hi Jens,
> this series fixes three bugs in bfq_requests_merged. In more detail:
> 
> - two linked bugs, with the first (critical: wrong lock) hidden by the
>   second (less critical: wrong check that made the body of the
>   function not be executed at all)
> - a rather minor bug: superflous code

Patch #2 doesn't apply on for-4.18/block. I hand applied it, all
3 are queued up now.

-- 
Jens Axboe