Re: [RFC 1/8] locking: Move mutex into kernel/locking/

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Nov 06 2013 - 06:36:43 EST



* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> * Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 12:26:38PM -0800, Michel Lespinasse wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 4:10 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > Index: linux-2.6/kernel/Makefile
> > > > ===================================================================
> > > > --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/Makefile
> > > > +++ linux-2.6/kernel/Makefile
> > > > @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ obj-y = fork.o exec_domain.o panic.o
> > > > sysctl.o sysctl_binary.o capability.o ptrace.o timer.o user.o \
> > > > signal.o sys.o kmod.o workqueue.o pid.o task_work.o \
> > > > extable.o params.o posix-timers.o \
> > > > - kthread.o sys_ni.o posix-cpu-timers.o mutex.o \
> > > > + kthread.o sys_ni.o posix-cpu-timers.o \
> > > > hrtimer.o rwsem.o nsproxy.o semaphore.o \
> > > > notifier.o ksysfs.o cred.o reboot.o \
> > > > async.o range.o groups.o lglock.o smpboot.o
> > >
> > > This is probably a stupid question, but I haven't been able to find
> > > one kernel version that this applies cleanly over ???
> >
> > Oh my bad, it appears I made it against a working tree, not an actual
> > published tree. That said, I don't think the rejects should be super
> > hard to fix.
> >
> > If people don't object to the idea I'll respin against something
> > published and testable.
>
> Please do it against the locking tree (tip:core/locking), it has pending
> changes plus v3.12 as well.

Note, I pushed out the movement patches to tip:core/locking, anyone
interested in testing it can pick them up from there.

Thanks,

Ingo
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