linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 00/19] gfs2: Fix mmap + page fault deadlocks

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Message-ID: <CAHk-=whVNs=67KdMg21wxQdKuOJNg2p3d9t6dX-u3Jw+tzxjoQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 3 Sep 2021 11:47:12 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@...hat.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...nel.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...abs.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        cluster-devel <cluster-devel@...hat.com>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        ocfs2-devel@....oracle.com, kvm-ppc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 00/19] gfs2: Fix mmap + page fault deadlocks

On Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 11:28 AM Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> FWIW, my objections regarding the calling conventions are still there.

So I'm happy to further change the calling conventions, but by now
_that_ part is most definitely a "not this merge window". The need for
that ternary state is still there.

It might go away in the future, but I think that's literally that: a
future cleanup. Not really related to the problem at hand.

              Linus