linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2 v2] dcache: get/release read lock in read_seqbegin_or

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Message-ID: <CA+55aFzdVf5veU4UMZ8tiThJauatroV5ZvQ0dtg6Y6jZnv5ZDg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 12 Sep 2013 15:00:18 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Waiman Long <waiman.long@...com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Chandramouleeswaran, Aswin" <aswin@...com>,
	"Norton, Scott J" <scott.norton@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2 v2] dcache: get/release read lock in
 read_seqbegin_or_lock() & friend

On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 12:04:56PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>
>> Btw, Al, I really want a pull request from you to fix the "returning
>> to user space with semaphore held" thing. Or I'm going to apply the
>> patch myself.  I'm on the road starting very early tomorrow morning,
>> and I don't want to have that hanging over me..
>
> Well...  The pull request contains quite a bit more than that - list_lru
> pile, mostly.

Ok, I'm going to really hope this is it for 3.12, because while I will
have my laptop, I will spend Friday traveling, the weekend diving,
before the week of LinuxCon.

So if you were planning a "pile 4", I hope we can leave it for 3.13.

            Linus
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