linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] reiserfs fixes

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Message-ID: <20100102192249.GD5076@nowhere>
Date:	Sat, 2 Jan 2010 20:22:51 +0100
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Christian Kujau <lists@...dbynature.de>,
	Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@...il.com>,
	Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] reiserfs fixes

On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 11:19:20AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2 Jan 2010, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > 
> > These changes fix a lot of lock inversions, some of them were
> > triggering soft lockups very easily in xattrs operations.
> 
> Should 2.6.32-stable merge this branch too?
> 
> 		Linus



No this only relies on the bkl removal patches merged in this cycle.

Thanks.

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