On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 08:47:51AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> Except that it's DAX, and in 4.7-rc1 that used shared locking at the
> XFS level and never took exclusive locks.
>
> *However*, the DAX IO path locking in XFS has changed in 4.9-rc1 to
> match the buffered IO single writer POSIX sema
The MPOL_LOCAL mode has been implemented by
Peter Zijlstra
(commit: 479e2802d09f1e18a97262c4c6f8f17ae5884bd8).
Add the documentation for this mode.
Signed-off-by: Piotr Kwapulinski
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This version adds more details about MPOL_LOCAL mode:
1. difference between MPOL_LOCAL and MPOL_DEFAULT
2. what
Hi Gunter,
Thanks for the review. v3 on it's way some responses below.
On 10/08/2016 07:29 AM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 02:38:44PM +1300, Chris Packham wrote:
>> Add support for the tc654 and tc655 fan controllers from Microchip.
>>
>> http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/D
Add support for the tc654 and tc655 fan controllers from Microchip.
http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/20001734C.pdf
Signed-off-by: Chris Packham
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Changes in v3:
- typofix in documentation
- add missing value to tc654_pwm_map, re-generate based on datasheet.
- remove unnecessary
Because osq has only been used for mutex/rwsem spinning logic,
we have gotten away with being rather flexible in any of the
traditional lock/unlock ACQUIRE/RELEASE minimal guarantees.
However, if wanted to be used as a _real_ lock, then it would
be in trouble. To this end, this patch provides the
On Sun, Oct 09, 2016 at 08:17:48AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 08:47:51AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > Except that it's DAX, and in 4.7-rc1 that used shared locking at the
> > XFS level and never took exclusive locks.
> >
> > *However*, the DAX IO path locking in XF
