linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] locking: remove spin_lock

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Date:   Tue, 15 Aug 2023 11:05:00 +0200
From:   Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@...il.com>
To:     Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
Cc:     torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] locking: remove spin_lock_prefetch

On 8/15/23, Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Aug 2023 18:15:54 +0200, Mateusz Guzik wrote:
>> The only remaining consumer is new_inode, where it showed up in 2001 in
>> the following commit in a historical repo [1]:
>>
>> commit c37fa164f793735b32aa3f53154ff1a7659e6442
>> Author: linus1 <torvalds@...lon.transmeta.com>
>> Date:   Thu Aug 16 11:00:00 2001 -0800
>>
>> [...]
>
> Applied to the vfs.misc branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree.
> Patches in the vfs.misc branch should appear in linux-next soon.
>

this already landed in master, see c8afaa1b0f8bc93d013ab2ea6b9649958af3f1d3

so please drop :)

> Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a
> new review to the original patch series allowing us to drop it.
>
> It's encouraged to provide Acked-bys and Reviewed-bys even though the
> patch has now been applied. If possible patch trailers will be updated.
>
> Note that commit hashes shown below are subject to change due to rebase,
> trailer updates or similar. If in doubt, please check the listed branch.
>
> tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git
> branch: vfs.misc
>
> [1/1] locking: remove spin_lock_prefetch
>       https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/a3e07d2abfef
>


-- 
Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik gmail.com>