Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 05 Jul 2013 11:29:10 -0400 | From | Waiman Long <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 00/12] Lockless update of reference count protected by spinlock |
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On 07/05/2013 11:02 AM, Al Viro wrote: > On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 10:47:33AM -0400, Waiman Long wrote: >> v4->v5: >> - Add a d_count() helper for readonly access of reference count and >> change all references to d_count outside of dcache.c, dcache.h >> and namei.c to use d_count(). > Sigh... You are breaking bisectability again. This helper should > be introduced *first*, along with conversion to it. Then you can > do the rest on top of that. > > I've just pushed such commit into vfs.git#for-linus; please, do the rest > on top of it. And keep it bisectable, i.e. so that at any intermediate > point the tree would build and work.
I am sorry. I didn't change anything in the dentry structure in patch 3. So putting patches 4-11 on top of it won't break the build.
Regards, Longman
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