[lustre-devel] Remaining work needed for moving Lustre out of staging

[James Simmons]

> On Dec 3, 2016, at 3:55 AM, gregkh at linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 09:53:08PM +0000, Dilger, Andreas wrote:
> >> Al,
> >> Greg recently raised the issue of what still needs to be done to
> >> move the Lustre code out of staging/ and into the fs/ tree. 
> >> 
> >> James has been doing a great job of cleaning up various checkpatch
> >> issues and keeping the code updated with the latest fixes, but we
> >> were wondering what you were aware of that needed to be cleaned
> >> up in Lustre?
> > 
> > Is the whole "mixing kernel structures in userspace structures" all
> > resolved now?  For some reason I thought that you had kernel locks being
> > passed to userspace and then back into the kernel, but it's been a long
> > time since I last looked...
> 
> While we certainly had our share of mixing user/kernelspace structures,
> I don't think we ever passed anything with locks around back and forth.

I think he means the use of linux list structures as a parameter for the
ioctls in LNet selftest. The work is being done under:

https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/browse/LU-8915

No patch ready just yet.