Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755349AbaFCVz3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2014 17:55:29 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:53972 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751032AbaFCVz2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2014 17:55:28 -0400 Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 14:55:26 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Ingo Molnar , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra , "Paul E. McKenney" , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] locking tree changes for v3.16 Message-Id: <20140603145526.f78e1cb7462048376709b6f0@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1401832251.8843.3.camel@buesod1.americas.hpqcorp.net> References: <20140603114821.GA23711@gmail.com> <1401832251.8843.3.camel@buesod1.americas.hpqcorp.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.2.0beta5 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 03 Jun 2014 14:50:51 -0700 Davidlohr Bueso wrote: > > The main changes in this cycle were: > > > > - reduced/streamlined smp_mb__*() interface that allows more usecases > > and makes the existing ones less buggy, especially in rarer > > architectures > > > > - add rwsem implementation comments > > > > - bump up lockdep limits > > So I guess the rwsem optimistic spinning stuff will be routed through > akpm then (which is already in -next for a while, through -mm). I'd prefer not - I put it in there just to get some linux-next exposure. A change like this should be carefully poked at by people who understand what they're poking. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/