linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fs/locks.c: prepare for BKL removal

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Message-Id: <201009212209.51956.arnd@arndb.de>
Date:	Tue, 21 Sep 2010 22:09:51 +0200
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Sage Weil <sage@...dream.net>
Cc:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@...ux.intel.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, John Kacur <jkacur@...hat.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, gregf@...newdream.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs/locks.c: prepare for BKL removal

On Tuesday 21 September 2010 18:12:07 Sage Weil wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Sep 2010, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 20:59:01 -0700 (PDT) Sage Weil <sage@...dream.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > I suspect the easiest thing is to leave Ceph out of this stage of your 
> > > series, I'll switch lock_kernel() to lock_flocks() once that exists 
> > > upstream.  Unless there is a better way? 
> > 
> > Maybe someone could write a trivial implementation of lock_flocks() (i.e.
> > one that does not make any changes to behaviour) and ask Linus to take it
> > now in preparation for the next merge window (he has done that before).
> > That way, more of this could be put into individual other trees and avoid
> > more conflicts ...
> 
> This sounds like the easiest solution to me.  Something as simple as
> 
> #define lock_flocks lock_kernel
> #define unlock_flocks unlock_kernel
> 
> in fs.h?

Sounds fine to me. I don't think it's necessary but if you prefer to do
it, you can have my Ack.

	Arnd
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