linux-ext4 - Re: [patch V2 6/7] fs/jbd2: Make state lock a spinlock

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Date:   Thu, 1 Aug 2019 20:12:11 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@...utronix.de>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Julia Cartwright <julia@...com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>,
        Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, Mark Fasheh <mark@...heh.com>,
        Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        Joel Becker <jlbec@...lplan.org>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch V2 6/7] fs/jbd2: Make state lock a spinlock

On Thu, 1 Aug 2019, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Thu 01-08-19 03:01:32, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > As almost all functions which use this lock have a journal head pointer
> > readily available, it makes more sense to remove the lock helper inlines
> > and write out spin_*lock() at all call sites.
> > 
> 
> Just a heads up that I didn't miss this patch. Just it has some bugs and I
> figured that rather than explaining to you subtleties of jh lifetime it is
> easier to fix up the problems myself since you're probably not keen on
> becoming jbd2 developer ;)... which was more complex than I thought so I'm
> not completely done yet. Hopefuly tomorrow.

I'm curious where I was too naive :)

Thanks for having a look!

       tglx