linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 05/10] don't use spin_lock

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Date:   Fri, 18 May 2018 09:01:32 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Dave Chinner <dchinner@...hat.com>, darrick.wong@...cle.com,
        tytso@....edu, linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org, clm@...com,
        jbacik@...com, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, willy@...radead.org,
        peterz@...radead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/10] don't use spin_lock_irqsave() unnecessarily

On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 03:49:08AM -0400, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>

Looks generally fine.  A little changelog with an explanation of
how we obviously never could get here with irqs disabled would
be nice, though.