linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 0/7] Generic Ticket Spinlocks

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Message-ID: <mhng-2750a5d4-cb79-4142-a8c6-e7e0c80f8e85@palmer-mbp2014>
Date:   Fri, 06 May 2022 07:34:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:   Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...osinc.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
CC:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, guoren@...nel.org,
        peterz@...radead.org, mingo@...hat.com,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, longman@...hat.com,
        boqun.feng@...il.com, jonas@...thpole.se,
        stefan.kristiansson@...nalahti.fi, shorne@...il.com,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        aou@...s.berkeley.edu, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com, macro@...am.me.uk, jszhang@...nel.org,
        linux-csky@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        openrisc@...ts.librecores.org, linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject:     Re: [PATCH v4 0/7] Generic Ticket Spinlocks

On Thu, 05 May 2022 04:09:46 PDT (-0700), Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 5:36 PM Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...osinc.com> wrote:
>>
>> Comments on the v3 looked pretty straight-forward, essentially just that
>> RCsc issue I'd missed from the v2 and some cleanups.  A part of the
>> discussion some additional possible cleanups came up related to the
>> qrwlock headers, but I hadn't looked at those yet and I had already
>> handled everything else.  This went on the back burner, but given that
>> LoongArch appears to want to use it for their new port I think it's best
>> to just run with this and defer the other cleanups until later.
>>
>> I've placed the whole patch set at palmer/tspinlock-v4, and also tagged
>> the asm-generic bits as generic-ticket-spinlocks-v4.  Ideally I'd like
>> to take that, along with the RISC-V patches, into my tree as there's
>> some RISC-V specific testing before things land in linux-next.  This
>> passes all my testing, but I'll hold off until merging things anywhere
>> else to make sure everyone has time to look.  There's no rush on my end
>> for this one, but I don't want to block LoongArch so I'll try to stay a
>> bit more on top of this one.
>
> I took another look as well and everything seems fine. I had expected
> that I would merge it into the asm-generic tree first and did not bother
> sending a separate Reviewed-by tag, but I agree that it's best if you
> create the branch.
>
> Can you add 'Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>'
> to each patch and send me a pull request for a v5 tag so we can
> merge that into both the riscv and the asm-generic trees?

Yep.  There were some other minor comments, I'll clean those up as well 
and send something soon.