Re: [GIT PULL] FS-Cache: Fixes for dead objects handling and operation cancellation

2015-05-12 Thread David Howells
Should I post a new pull request for these? David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [GIT PULL] FS-Cache: Fixes for dead objects handling and operation cancellation

2015-04-02 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 11:24 AM, David Howells wrote: > > We weren't looking at -rc7 shortly when I first posted a pull request. Bah. It was already rc5 when the first pull request came, don't try to make it sound like anything but "very late in the rc" game. If there are any *stable* patches in

Re: [GIT PULL] FS-Cache: Fixes for dead objects handling and operation cancellation

2015-04-02 Thread David Howells
Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Could you pull these FS-Cache fixes please? > > I really think this is out of the merge window, and not at all appropriate. > > There have been no fscache changes since September of last year, it > can't suddenly be so urgent that you need to get things into -rc7. We

Re: [GIT PULL] FS-Cache: Fixes for dead objects handling and operation cancellation

2015-04-02 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 6:59 AM, David Howells wrote: > > Could you pull these FS-Cache fixes please? I really think this is out of the merge window, and not at all appropriate. There have been no fscache changes since September of last year, it can't suddenly be so urgent that you need to get th

[GIT PULL] FS-Cache: Fixes for dead objects handling and operation cancellation

2015-04-02 Thread David Howells
Hi Linus, Could you pull these FS-Cache fixes please? The main thrust of the fixes are: (1) Handle a race between operation submission on an object (eg. reading data from that object) and the object transitioning to the dead state. The race shows up as an assertion at fs/cachefiles/i

[GIT PULL] FS-Cache: Fixes for dead objects handling and operation cancellation

2015-03-23 Thread David Howells
Hi Linus, Could you pull these FS-Cache fixes please? The main thrust of the fixes are: (1) Handle a race between operation submission on an object (eg. reading data from that object) and the object transitioning to the dead state. The race shows up as an assertion at fs/cachefiles/i