Re: [GIT PULL] liblockdep for 4.12

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

* alexander.levin@verizon.com <alexander.levin@verizon.com> wrote:

> Hi Ingo,
> 
> Please pull fixes for liblockdep.
> 
> ===
> 
> The following changes since commit a351e9b9fc24e982ec2f0e76379a49826036da12:
> 
>   Linux 4.11 (2017-04-30 19:47:48 -0700)
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sashal/linux.git liblockdep-fixes
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to ec3cedc646ea697c849fe651f62ed448760ea569:
> 
>   tools: liblockdep: Use LDFLAGS (2017-05-04 21:34:07 -0400)
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Alexander Sverdlin (2):
>       tools: add install make target for liblockdep
>       tools: liblockdep: Don't mix fd-based and stream IO
> 
> Ben Hutchings (10):
>       liblockdep: Fix undefined symbol prandom_u32
>       liblockdep: Reduce MAX_LOCK_DEPTH to avoid overflowing lock_chain::depth
>       liblockdep: Define the ARRAY_SIZE() macro
>       liblockdep: Enable -Wall by default
>       liblockdep: Fix 'unused value' warnings
>       liblockdep: Fix 'set but not used' warnings
>       liblockdep: Fix 'defined but not used' warning for init_utsname()
>       tools: liblockdep: Fix object file paths used in an out-of-tree build
>       tools: liblockdep: Remove double-quotes from soname
>       tools: liblockdep: Use LDFLAGS
> 
> Sasha Levin (2):
>       MAINTAINERS: update email for Sasha Levin
>       tools: liblockdep: fix compilation for 4.11
> 
> Vishal Thanki (1):
>       liblockdep: Remove -lpthread compiler option

Could you please include all the patches as part of the pull request, so that 
individual patches can be discussed?

In particular I'm wondering about:

>  tools/include/linux/jhash.h                    | 125 +++++++++++++++++++++++

include/linux/jhash.h is 175 lines long - why not make an exact copy and keep it 
synchronized the way perf does it?

Thanks,

	Ingo