Re: [PATCH v5 0/3] Remove the XFS mrlock
From: Chandan Babu R
Date: Mon Feb 19 2024 - 10:11:46 EST
On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 10:05:10 PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 09:24:21PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
>> XFS has an mrlock wrapper around the rwsem which adds only the
>> functionality of knowing whether the rwsem is currently held in read
>> or write mode. Both regular rwsems and rt-rwsems know this, they just
>> don't expose it as an API. By adding that, we can remove the XFS mrlock
>> as well as improving the debug assertions for the mmap_lock when lockdep
>> is disabled.
>>
>> I have an ack on the first patch from Peter, so I would like to see this
>> merged through the XFS tree since most of what it touches is XFS.
>
> What needs to happen to get these picked up to not miss the next merge
> window?
Matthew, I have updated XFS' for-next branch. The HEAD commit is now
49c379d3a72ab86aafeafebe6b43577acb1ef359 ("xfs: use kvfree for buf in
xfs_ioc_getbmap"). Pleae rebase your patchset on top of for-next and either
post the rebased patchset or you can send me a pull request.
--
Chandan