linux-kernel - Re: [Patch v9 00/10] block atomic writes

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Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2024 08:59:19 +0100
From: John Garry <john.g.garry@...cle.com>
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Subject: Re: [Patch v9 00/10] block atomic writes

On 20/06/2024 22:23, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jun 2024 12:53:49 +0000, John Garry wrote:
>> This series introduces a proposal to implementing atomic writes in the
>> kernel for torn-write protection.
>>
>> This series takes the approach of adding a new "atomic" flag to each of
>> pwritev2() and iocb->ki_flags - RWF_ATOMIC and IOCB_ATOMIC, respectively.
>> When set, these indicate that we want the write issued "atomically".
>>
>> [...]
> Applied, thanks!

Thanks Jens.

JFYI, we will probably notice a trivial conflict in 
include/uapi/linux/stat.h when merging, as I fixed a comment there which 
went into v6.10-rc4 . To resolve, the version in this series can be 
used, as it also fixes that comment.