linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] LightNVM patches for 4.5-rc

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Date:	Fri, 26 Feb 2016 19:21:35 +0100
From:	Matias Bjorling <m@...rling.me>
To:	linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	axboe@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] LightNVM patches for 4.5-rc

On 02/20/2016 08:52 AM, Matias Bjørling wrote:
> Hi Jens,
> 
> Sorry, I was living in a fairy tail land, where patches are
> miraculously applied without being sent upstream. Leading me to test
> on top of the wrong base.
> 
> I was missing three patches, which I should have sent for previous -rc
> round.
> 
> The first patch fixes taking a normal spinlock in interrupt context.
> Second and third are cleanups, and at last the patch that previously
> did not compile.
> 
> Thanks,
> Matias
> 
> Javier González (2):
>   lightnvm: update closed list outside of intr context
>   lightnvm: generalize rrpc ppa calculations
> 
> Matias Bjørling (2):
>   lightnvm: rename ->nr_pages to ->nr_sects
>   lightnvm: remove struct nvm_dev->total_blocks
> 
>  drivers/lightnvm/core.c   |  6 +--
>  drivers/lightnvm/gennvm.c |  7 ++--
>  drivers/lightnvm/rrpc.c   | 98 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
>  drivers/lightnvm/rrpc.h   | 15 ++++++--
>  include/linux/lightnvm.h  |  2 +-
>  5 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-)
> 

Hi Jens,

Please consider to apply these for the next -rc. If only part of them,
then just the first path, as it fixes a problem when blocks are closed
during a write.

Thanks,
Matias