On Thu, Jul 17, 2025 at 05:08:11PM +0200, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> Hi
>
> I wouldn't do this - these sorts of changes will cause problems when
> backporting bugfixes to the stable kernel branches.
>
> Mikulas
Sure, but doing the right thing in mainline takes priority over ease of
backports.
Th
Hi
I wouldn't do this - these sorts of changes will cause problems when
backporting bugfixes to the stable kernel branches.
Mikulas
On Thu, 17 Jul 2025, Eran Messeri wrote:
> Rename the "in_bh" / "use_bh" fields to indicate the work is done
> in-line, not in the "bottom half" (as a synonym t
Rename the "in_bh" / "use_bh" fields to indicate the work is done
in-line, not in the "bottom half" (as a synonym to softirq). In
certain situations (e.g. dm-verity on top of a loopback device)
the verification will not be done in a softirq context but in a
task context.
There are no functional ch
