Re: [PATCH 0/2 v2] dcache: get/release read lock inread_seqbegin_or_lock() & friend

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu Sep 12 2013 - 18:00:27 EST


On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 12:04:56PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>
>> Btw, Al, I really want a pull request from you to fix the "returning
>> to user space with semaphore held" thing. Or I'm going to apply the
>> patch myself. I'm on the road starting very early tomorrow morning,
>> and I don't want to have that hanging over me..
>
> Well... The pull request contains quite a bit more than that - list_lru
> pile, mostly.

Ok, I'm going to really hope this is it for 3.12, because while I will
have my laptop, I will spend Friday traveling, the weekend diving,
before the week of LinuxCon.

So if you were planning a "pile 4", I hope we can leave it for 3.13.

Linus
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