[Cluster-devel] GFS2: Pre-pull patch posting (merge window)

[Steven Whitehouse]

Hi,

On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 08:18 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 03/19/2012 07:59 AM, Steven Whitehouse wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 07:45 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> >> On 03/19/2012 03:25 AM, Steven Whitehouse wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> Not a huge number of patches this time. Some notable new features
> >>> though:
> >>>  - Glock stats gathering (v. useful for performance analysis)
> >>>  - FITRIM ioctl support
> >>>  - Sorting the ordered write list (big performance increase when the workload
> >>>    doesn't result in the write requests being nicely ordered to start with)
> >>>
> >>> Plus a few clean ups, and bug fixes in addition,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I reported a build error in linux-next 20120313, but it appears
> >> that mainline also needs the fix (when it's ready) since mainline
> >> gfs2 Kconfig selects DLM_SCTP, which does not exist.
> >>
> >> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/13/456
> >>
> > 
> > Does the following fix the problem? If so then I'll roll that into the
> > tree before it gets pushed,
> > 
> 
> No, that's not sufficient:
> 
> warning: (GFS2_FS) selects DLM which has unmet direct dependencies (EXPERIMENTAL && INET && SYSFS && CONFIGFS_FS && (IPV6 || IPV6=n))
> warning: (DLM && GFS2_FS) selects IP_SCTP which has unmet direct dependencies (NET && INET && EXPERIMENTAL && (IPV6 || IPV6=n))
> 
> and
> 
> ERROR: "crc32c" [net/sctp/sctp.ko] undefined!
> 
> 
Since the pending patch set doesn't affect the Kconfig at all, I don't
think that this issue needs to hold up merging the GFS2 tree. We'll
follow up with a fix for this later on,

Steve.