linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 00/12] Lockless update of reference count protected by spinlock

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Date:	Fri, 5 Jul 2013 16:02:24 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@...com>
Cc:	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>,
	Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	"Chandramouleeswaran, Aswin" <aswin@...com>,
	"Norton, Scott J" <scott.norton@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 00/12] Lockless update of reference count protected by
 spinlock

On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 10:47:33AM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> v4->v5:
>  - Add a d_count() helper for readonly access of reference count and
>    change all references to d_count outside of dcache.c, dcache.h
>    and namei.c to use d_count().

Sigh...  You are breaking bisectability again.  This helper should
be introduced *first*, along with conversion to it.  Then you can
do the rest on top of that.

I've just pushed such commit into vfs.git#for-linus; please, do the rest
on top of it.  And keep it bisectable, i.e. so that at any intermediate
point the tree would build and work.
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