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Date:	Wed, 13 Aug 2014 12:09:07 +1000
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Jeff Layton <jeff.layton@...marydata.com>
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] locks: move most locks_release_private calls
 outside of i_lock

Hi Jeff,

On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 19:47:36 -0400 Jeff Layton <jeff.layton@...marydata.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 08:28:27 +1000
> Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 10:48:08 -0400 Jeff Layton <jlayton@...marydata.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Absent any objections, I'll plan to merge these for 3.18.
> > 
> > This means that this patch set should *not* be in linux-next until after
> > (at least) v3.17-rc1 is released ...  This s reinforced by the lack of
> > Acked-by, Reviewed-by and Tested-by tags ... (the addition of which would
> > presumably require the rebase (or rewrite) of a published git tree.)
> 
> It would, but I sent a later reply that revised that statement.
> 
> Trond pointed out that this problem can cause a user-triggerable oops,
> so we may have to merge it for 3.17 after all. With that in mind, I
> added these to my linux-next branch and will probably send a pull
> request before the window closes (assuming that there are no glaring
> problems with it).

OK, fine.  I have merged it today in any case.

> While we're on the subject, we probably ought to rename my tree in your
> "Trees" file from "file-private-locks" to "file-locks" or something.
> File private locks (aka OFD locks) got merged in v3.15, but I have been
> collecting patches that touch fs/locks.c

OK, I will do that tomorrow.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au

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