Re: [PATCH -v2 5/7] locking/percpu-rwsem: Remove the embedded rwsem

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 04:09:33PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Can you split the removal of the non-owned resem support into a separate
> > patch?  I still think keeping this one and moving aio to that scheme is
> > a better idea than the current ad-hoc locking scheme that has all kinds
> > of issues.
> 
> That's basically 2 lines of code and a comment, surely we can ressurect
> that if/when it's needed again?

Sure, I could.  But then you'd still need to update your commit log for
this patch explaining why it includes unrelated changes to a different
subsystem.  By splitting it you also document your changes much better.