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From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: neilb@suse.de, peterz@infradead.org, mingo@redhat.com,
	will@kernel.org, longman@redhat.com, boqun.feng@gmail.com,
	tglx@linutronix.de, bigeasy@linutronix.de,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/17] bit_spinlock: Prepare for split_locks
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2021 10:55:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YHBq3Lutxdfz6qyq@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210409143555.GV2531743@casper.infradead.org>

On Fri, Apr 09, 2021 at 03:35:55PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> It's perfectly bisectable.
> 
> Before: bit_spin_lock takes two arguments
> During: bit_spin_lock takes at least two arguments, ignores all but the first two
> After: bit_spin_lock takes three arguments

Ah, got it, thanks for the clarification!

					- Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-09 14:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-09  2:51 [PATCH 00/17] Provide lockdep tracking for bit spin locks Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-09  2:51 ` [PATCH 01/17] x86: Rename split_lock_init to sld_init Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-09  2:51 ` [PATCH 02/17] locking: Add split_lock Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-12 14:29   ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-04-12 14:45     ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-04-12 15:01       ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-11  7:46       ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-09  2:51 ` [PATCH 03/17] bit_spinlock: Prepare for split_locks Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-09 14:32   ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-04-09 14:35     ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-04-09 14:55       ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2021-04-09  2:51 ` [PATCH 04/17] hlist_bl: " Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-09  2:51 ` [PATCH 05/17] dm-snap: Add dm_exceptional_lock Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-09  2:51 ` [PATCH 06/17] dcache: Add d_hash_lock Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-09  2:51 ` [PATCH 07/17] fscache: Add cookie_hash_lock Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-09  2:51 ` [PATCH 08/17] gfs2: Add qd_hash_lock Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-09  2:51 ` [PATCH 09/17] mbcache: Add mb_cache_lock Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-09  2:51 ` [PATCH 10/17] hlist_bl: Make the split_lock parameter mandatory Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-09  2:51 ` [PATCH 11/17] s390: Add airq_iv_lock Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-09  6:18   ` kernel test robot
2021-04-09 13:20     ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-04-09  2:51 ` [PATCH 12/17] zram: Add zram_table_lock Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-09  2:51 ` [PATCH 13/17] jbd2: Add jbd2_jh_lock Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-09  2:51 ` [PATCH 14/17] slub: Add slab_page_lock Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-09  2:51 ` [PATCH 15/17] zsmalloc: Add zs_pin_lock Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-09  2:51 ` [PATCH 16/17] rhashtable: Convert to split_lock Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-09  2:51 ` [PATCH 17/17] bit_spinlock: Track bit spin locks with lockdep Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-04-09  6:37   ` kernel test robot

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