From: Christoph Hellwig on
I haven't verified that the work in each ->ioctl method is correct,
but the concept and core code changes look good to me.

ACK for the series.

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From: Jens Axboe on
On 07/07/10 16.51, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> This series removes the big kernel lock from the common
> block layer code by pushing it into the individual
> device drivers.
>
> This version incorporates further changes to address
> comments from Christoph Hellwig and Sam Ravnborg,
> many thanks for the valuable feedback!
>
> I'd like to get this into 2.6.36 in order to remove
> the BKL from all the core kernel code.
>
> Once Christoph is happy with the series, in particular
> the third patch, I'd like to add it to linux-next
> for broader testing, preferrably though Jens Axboe's
> linux-2.6-block.git tree.

I'll go over each one tomorrow and add the series. Thanks
a lot for getting this done!

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From: Arnd Bergmann on
On Wednesday 07 July 2010 21:36:42 Jens Axboe wrote:
> I'll go over each one tomorrow and add the series.

Ok, thanks!

If it makes your life easier, feel free to get this series from

git pull git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl.git block

Arnd
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From: Jens Axboe on
On 2010-07-07 22:18, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 July 2010 21:36:42 Jens Axboe wrote:
>> I'll go over each one tomorrow and add the series.
>
> Ok, thanks!
>
> If it makes your life easier, feel free to get this series from
>
> git pull git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl.git block

I applied it manually with the fixups mention, one of them also needed
a bit of hand holding (applying with fuzz). The end result looks good
and it survives an allmodconfig at least.

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