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

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Date:	Fri, 5 Jul 2013 18:54:56 +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 11:29:10AM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> >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.
> 
> I am sorry. I didn't change anything in the dentry structure in
> patch 3. So putting patches 4-11 on top of it won't break the build.

*gyah*...  I'd missed the !@#!# macro you've added there.  Could you
explain the reasons for using it at all?  Not to mention anything
else, you've missed
#  define d_refcount(d)                 ((d)->d_count)
in Lustre.  What's the point of your macro (d_refcount -> d_count), anyway?  
All references outside of fs/namei.c, fs/dcache.c, include/linux/dcache.h
should be via d_count(dentry) anyway...
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