Re: [PATCH 1/3] locking: WW mutex cleanup

[Thomas Hellstrom]

On 06/19/2018 11:44 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 10:24:43AM +0200, Thomas Hellstrom wrote:
> > From: Peter Ziljstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Make the WW mutex code more readable by adding comments, splitting up
> > functions and pointing out that we're actually using the Wait-Die
> > algorithm.
> >
> > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Sean Paul <seanpaul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: David Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Kate Stewart <kstewart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@xxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: linux-doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: linux-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: linaro-mm-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Co-authored-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >   Documentation/locking/ww-mutex-design.txt |  12 +-
> >   include/linux/ww_mutex.h                  |  28 ++---
> >   kernel/locking/mutex.c                    | 202 ++++++++++++++++++------------
> >   3 files changed, 145 insertions(+), 97 deletions(-)
> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Peter,

Do you want to add a SOB, since you're the main author?

Thomas