linux-kernel - Re: [patch V3 1/7] rtmutex: Deobfuscate chain walk

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Message-ID: <20140610135721.GA28502@linuxgetsreal>
Date:	Tue, 10 Jun 2014 08:57:21 -0500
From:	"Brad Mouring" <bmouring@...com>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>,
	Jason Low <jason.low2@...com>, Brad Mouring <bmouring@...com>
Subject: Re: [patch V3 1/7] rtmutex: Deobfuscate chain walk

On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 08:28:06PM -0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> There is no point to keep the task ref across the check for lock
> owner. Drop the ref before that, so the protection context is clear.
> 
> Found while documenting the chain walk.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>

I also am not a huge fan of the verbiage of the commit message here.
Steven's makes more sense to me, and you basically say the same thing
in the actual commit message.

Reviewed-by: Brad Mouring <brad.mouring@...com>
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