linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] fs/buffer: Make BH_Uptodate_Lock bit_spin_lock a regular spinlock

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Message-ID: <20191119115953.GF25605@quack2.suse.cz>
Date:   Tue, 19 Nov 2019 12:59:53 +0100
From:   Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:     Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
Cc:     Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@...utronix.de>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Julia Cartwright <julia@...com>, Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>, Mark Fasheh <mark@...heh.com>,
        Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Joel Becker <jlbec@...lplan.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] fs/buffer: Make BH_Uptodate_Lock bit_spin_lock a
 regular spinlock_t

On Tue 19-11-19 11:00:22, Sebastian Siewior wrote:
> On 2019-11-19 10:30:01 [+0100], Jan Kara wrote:
> > OK, how do we push this? Do you plan to push this through tip tree?
> 
> Is it reasonable to push this via the ext4 tree?

I don't know and I don't think it largely matters. That code is rarely
touched. Lately changes to that code have been flowing through block tree
(Jens Axboe) or iomap tree (Darrick Wong) because those were the people
needing the changes in...

								Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>
SUSE Labs, CR