linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][RFC] lockdep: improve comments in wait-type checks

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Message-ID: <CAABZP2wtAVYmWfSBmJDyaLuTFQGq6KsN=3uogZtm8FK1_bAJAg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 24 Aug 2021 22:43:18 +0800
From:   Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@...il.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>, mingo@...hat.com,
        will@...nel.org, longman@...hat.com, paulmck@...nel.org,
        Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
        rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
        Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>,
        "Joel Fernandes, Google" <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        rcu <rcu@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] lockdep: improve comments in wait-type checks

Thank both of you for correcting my mistakes.
I do benefit a lot from your emails.

Cheers
Zhouyi

On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 9:47 PM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 10:44:21AM +0800, Boqun Feng wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 05:03:19AM +0800, Zhouyi Zhou wrote:
> > > Hi Peter,
> > >   I think comments in wait-type checks may benifit from some comments
> > > improvement.
> >
> > Thanks for looking into this!
> >
> > Even for an RFC patch, it's better that you write a proper commit log,
> > and note that you can put all this background information right after
> > the "---" line, if you think that will help people review it.
> >
> > >   I recklessly add Paul to signed-off-by, because I asked his opinion
> > > about comment in rcu_read_lock_bh part.
> > >
> >
> > Probably a Suggested-by will suffice, but I leave that to Paul ;-)
>
> This, also since Paul never actually touched the patch.
>
> > > Thanks a lot
> > > Zhouyi
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@...il.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
> >
> > Please make you the last one in the "Signed-off-by" list, see
> > Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst:
> >
> > "Notably, the last Signed-off-by: must always be that of the developer
> > submitting the patch."
>
> The first sob should be that of the author, and given that's the same
> person as the submitter in this case, he's got a problem at his hands
> ;-)
>