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

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Date:   Thu, 31 May 2018 16:50:46 +0200
From:   Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@...aro.org>
To:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Cc:     linux-block <linux-block@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        'Paolo Valente' via bfq-iosched 
        <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



> Il giorno 31 mag 2018, alle ore 16:48, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk> ha scritto:
> 
> 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.

Yep, it gave some problems to me too, because we happened to move this
patch around by email.

> I hand applied it, all
> 3 are queued up now.
> 

Thanks for the patience and for queueing these fixes.

Paolo

> -- 
> Jens Axboe
>