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Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 17:04:39 +0200
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
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Subject: Re: waitqueue lockdep annotation V3
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On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 04:24:37PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 12:17:53PM -0700, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> > On Thu, 14 Dec 2017, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> this series adds a strategic lockdep_assert_held to __wake_up_common
> >> to ensure callers really do hold the wait_queue_head lock when calling
> >> the unlocked wake_up variants.  It turns out epoll did not do this
> >> for a fairly common path (hit all the time by systemd during bootup),
> >> so the second patch fixed this instance as well.
> >
> > I ran into these changes because of patch 1 getting rid of ep->lock. Is
> > there any reason why this series was never picked up?
> 
> I'd love to see this merged, but I never heard back about it.

Seeing how it touched fs bits, I was expecting this to go through the
vfs tree; was that not the intended target?