linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] exec: Transform exec_update_mutex into a rw

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Message-ID: <20201207090953.GF3040@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:   Mon, 7 Dec 2020 10:09:53 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Bernd Edlinger <bernd.edlinger@...mail.de>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
        Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>,
        Sargun Dhillon <sargun@...gun.me>,
        Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>,
        Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] exec: Transform exec_update_mutex into a rw_semaphore

On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 12:48:18PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 12:30 PM Bernd Edlinger
> <bernd.edlinger@...mail.de> wrote:
> >>
> > >    perf_event_open  (exec_update_mutex -> ovl_i_mutex)
> 
> Side note: this one looks like it should be easy to fix.

> PeterZ, is there something I'm missing?

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