Re: [PATCH v5 00/12] Lockless update of reference count protectedby spinlock

[Waiman Long]

On 07/05/2013 11:29 AM, Waiman Long wrote:
> 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.

I explicitly applied the patches one at a time to make sure that there 
was no broken build.

Regards,
Longman
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