Re: [PATCH 03/17] bit_spinlock: Prepare for split_locks

From: Theodore Ts'o
Date: Fri Apr 09 2021 - 10:33:25 EST


On Fri, Apr 09, 2021 at 03:51:17AM +0100, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> Make bit_spin_lock() and variants variadic to help with the transition.
> The split_lock parameter will become mandatory at the end of the series.
> Also add bit_spin_lock_nested() and bit_spin_unlock_assign() which will
> both be used by the rhashtable code later.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

This changes the function signature for bit_spin_lock(), if I'm
reading this correctly. Hence, this is going to break git
bisectability; was this patch series separated out for easy of review,
and you were planning on collapsing things into a single patch to
preserve bisectability?

- Ted