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On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 03:55:09PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:

> That is quite a number of changes spread over many different functions. That
> is the kind of changes that may make it harder to backport to stable
> releases.

Yeah; don't care. it's the right thing to do. It also doesn't need to be
reverted since it's a sane and good property for lock-ops to have.