Re: [PATCH] perf: Break deadlock involving exec_update_mutex

Eric W. Biederman
2020-12-10T20:14:06Z

Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> writes:

> On Tue, 08 Dec 2020, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
>>I suppose I'll queue the below into tip/perf/core for next merge window,
>>unless you want it in a hurry?
>
> I'm thinking we'd still want Eric's series on top of this for the reader
> benefits of the lock.

We will see shortly what happens when the various branches all make it
into linux-next. The two changes don't conflict in principle so it
should not be a problem.

Eric