linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] locking changes for v5.2

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Date:   Tue, 7 May 2019 10:24:13 +0200
From:   Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Waiman Long <longman9394@...il.com>,
        Linux List Kernel Mailing <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] locking changes for v5.2


* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 12:43 PM Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> > Sure - how close is this to a straight:
> >
> >         git revert 70800c3c0cc5
> 
> It's not really a revert. The code is different (and better) from the
> straight revert, but perhaps equally importantly it also ends up with
> a big comment about what's going on that made the original commit
> wrong.
> 
> So I'd suggest just taking the patch as-is, and not calling it a
> revert. It may revert to the original _model_ of wakup list traversal,
> but it does so differently enough that the patch itself is not a
> revert.

Ok, Waiman's patch is now the following commit in locking/urgent:

  a9e9bcb45b15: ("locking/rwsem: Prevent decrement of reader count before increment")

it should get to you in a couple of days.

Thanks,

	Ingo