linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 0/8] Move locking primitives into kernel/locking/

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Date:	Tue, 5 Nov 2013 11:38:22 -0800
From:	Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, oleg@...hat.com, dhowells@...hat.com,
	willy@...ux.intel.com, tglx@...utronix.de, rostedt@...dmis.org,
	airlied@...il.com, maarten.lankhorst@...onical.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/8] Move locking primitives into kernel/locking/

On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 4:10 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> During Kernel Summit Dave mentioned that there wasn't a clear maintainer for
> locking bits.
>
> To remedy this Ingo suggested gathering all the various locking primitives and
> lockdep into a single place: kernel/locking/.

I quite like the idea.

> I would further like to propose a MAINTAINERS entry like:
>
> LOCKING
> M:      Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
> M:      Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
> M:      Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
> M:      "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> M:      Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
> T:      git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git locking/core
> S:      Maintained
> F:      kernel/locking/
>
> Because for most 'fun' locking discussions we usually end up with at least
> those people anyway :-)

Agree :)

While I don't think I carry as much weight as these people, I was
going to ask to be included here for the fun discussions - and then I
realized that having a separate directory for these files makes it
super easy to set up a mail filter anyway :)

-- 
Michel "Walken" Lespinasse
A program is never fully debugged until the last user dies.
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