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From: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>,
	"Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
	Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] locking/percpu-rwsem: Annotate rwsem ownership transfer by setting RWSEM_OWNER_UNKNOWN
Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 14:02:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1baa1a1a-a4a7-d706-8c01-5ff6a8757f97@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180515175805.GN12217@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On 05/15/2018 01:58 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 01:38:04PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
>> +/*
>> + * Owner value to indicate the rwsem's owner is not currently known.
>> + */
>> +#define RWSEM_OWNER_UNKNOWN	((struct task_struct *)-1)
> It might be nice to comment that this works and relies on having that
> ANON_OWNER bit set.

I am just trying not to expose internal working of rwsem, but I can
document that one of the bits is the real deal without specifying which one.

Cheers,
Longman

  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-15 18:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-15 17:38 [PATCH v3 0/2] locking/rwsem: Fix DEBUG_RWSEM warning from thaw_super() Waiman Long
2018-05-15 17:38 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] locking/rwsem: Add a new RWSEM_ANONYMOUSLY_OWNED flag Waiman Long
2018-05-15 17:46   ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-15 17:48     ` Waiman Long
2018-05-15 17:48   ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-15 17:52     ` Waiman Long
2018-05-15 17:55       ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-15 17:56         ` Waiman Long
2018-05-15 18:02   ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-15 17:38 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] locking/percpu-rwsem: Annotate rwsem ownership transfer by setting RWSEM_OWNER_UNKNOWN Waiman Long
2018-05-15 17:58   ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-15 18:02     ` Waiman Long [this message]
2018-05-15 18:05       ` Amir Goldstein
2018-05-15 18:45         ` Waiman Long
2018-05-15 18:05       ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-15 18:35         ` Waiman Long
2018-05-15 18:02     ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-05-15 18:07       ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-15 18:45       ` Waiman Long
2018-05-15 21:21         ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-05-15 21:30           ` Waiman Long

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