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On Monday 05 January 2009 19:43:00 Andrew Morton wrote: > The individual patches are mostly at > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/ > > > mm-remove-the-might_sleep-from-lock_page.patch > > Need to think about this. Removing this reduces a lot of might_sleep coverage scope. Page lock isn't contended in a lot of cases. Why would you drop a good debugging feature? > mm-direct-io-starvation-improvement.patch > fs-remove-wb_sync_hold.patch > fs-sync_sb_inodes-fix.patch > fs-sys_sync-fix.patch > radix-tree-gang-set-if-tagged-operation.patch This one is unneeded because you didn't take the fsync livelock avoidance patch that makes use of the new function. > make-sure-nobodys-leaking-resources.patch > releasing-resources-with-children.patch Any reason why not to add these upstream? > nr_blockdev_pages-in_interrupt-warning.patch Lockdep should catch this, I guess. > put_bh-debug.patch This could just be implemented with a VM_BUG_ON (or FS_BUG_ON) like the pagecache refcounting. Wouldn't be a bad idea. > add-a-refcount-check-in-dput.patch Again, why not an FS_BUG_ON for things like this too? | ||||||||||||
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