[PATCH 0/1] LP#309378 -- port dm-raid4-5 to 2.6.28 and re-enable

[Tim Gardner]

Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> Someone seems to be using dm-raid4-5 and has filed a bug on it.  There
> is no later version available upstream.  I have therefore attempted a
> forward port of this.  The port seems trivial enough but raid is obviously
> something rather sensitive as its failure mode is unpleasant.
> 
> The main thing is that an interface in the kernel was no longer used
> by anything and was removed (a common occurance), so I have had to
> reinstate this.  Basically all internal users of the locked form
> of {set,clear}_page_locked() had gone so they were removed.  Now it
> is entirly possible we could move to the unlocked interfaces, but it
> is significantly safer to assume not and reinstate them; based on the
> assumption that upstream will port this forward to 2.6.28 at some point
> after release and is far better placed to make that call.
> 
> Comments?
> 
> -apw
> 
> Andy Whitcroft (1):
>   UBUNTU: ubuntu: Add dm-raid4-5 driver -- port to 2.6.28
> 
>  include/linux/pagemap.h        |    8 ++++++++
>  ubuntu/dm-raid4-5/Makefile     |    2 +-
>  ubuntu/dm-raid4-5/dm-raid4-5.c |    2 +-
>  3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> 

Applied, though with a slight modification. I moved
{set,clear}_page_locked() into dm-raid4-5.c. I don't see the benefit of
cluttering the mainline include files. Are you concerned that
set_page_locked()/clear_page_locked() might be reintroduced to mainline
with different semantics?

rtg
-- 
Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com