linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/3] rtmutex: Avoid barrier in rt_mutex_handle

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Message-ID: <20160322214628.GA3528@osiris>
Date:	Tue, 22 Mar 2016 22:46:28 +0100
From:	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>, tglx@...utronix.de,
	mingo@...nel.org, bigeasy@...utronix.de, umgwanakikbuti@...il.com,
	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kmo@...erainc.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/3] rtmutex: Avoid barrier in rt_mutex_handle_deadlock

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 05:41:22PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 03:45:37PM +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> 
> > Sure, looks nice and makes a lot of sense. And the text looks a bit familiar
> > to me ;)
> > 
> > Could you provide From: and Signed-off-by: lines?
> 
> Of course, find below.
> 
> ---
> Subject: s390: Clarify pagefault interrupt
> From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
> 
> While looking at set_task_state() users I stumbled over the s390 pfault
> interrupt code.  Since Heiko provided a great explanation on how it
> worked, I figured we ought to preserve this.
> 
> Also make a few little tweaks to the code to aid in readability and
> explicitly comment the unusual blocking scheme.
> 
> Based-on-text-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
> ---
>  arch/s390/mm/fault.c | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Applied, with some whitespace changes from me. Thank you!