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From: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Wei Wang <wvw@google.com>,
	Midas Chien <midaschieh@google.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Anton Vorontsov <anton@enomsg.org>,
	"Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@igalia.com>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	kernel-team@android.com, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pstore: Revert pmsg_lock back to a normal mutex
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2023 03:23:15 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230304032315.GC2176990@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230304030130.GA2176990@google.com>

On Sat, Mar 04, 2023 at 03:01:30AM +0000, Joel Fernandes wrote:
[...]
> > > > > Either way, I think a comment should go on top of the "if (top_waiter !=
> > > > > waiter)" check IMO.  
> > > >
> > > > What type of comment?  
> > > 
> > > Comment explaining why "if (top_waiter != waiter)" is essential :-).
> > 
> 
> Maybe "/* Only the top waiter needs to spin. If we are no longer the
> top-waiter, no point in spinning, as we do not get the lock next anyway. */"
> 
> ?

And it could be added to that comment that, we want to continue spinning as
long as the top-waiter is still on the CPU (even if we are no longer the
top-waiter).

thanks,

 - Joel


  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-04  3:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-02  6:27 [PATCH] pstore: Revert pmsg_lock back to a normal mutex John Stultz
2023-03-02 13:24 ` Steven Rostedt
2023-03-02 19:39   ` John Stultz
2023-03-02 20:21     ` Steven Rostedt
2023-03-02 21:32       ` Steven Rostedt
2023-03-02 21:36         ` Steven Rostedt
2023-03-02 21:56           ` Steven Rostedt
2023-03-03  1:01             ` Steven Rostedt
2023-03-03 18:11               ` Joel Fernandes
2023-03-03 18:37                 ` Steven Rostedt
2023-03-03 19:25                   ` Joel Fernandes
2023-03-03 19:38                     ` Steven Rostedt
2023-03-03 20:36                       ` Qais Yousef
2023-03-04  3:21                         ` Joel Fernandes
2023-03-06 19:19                           ` Qais Yousef
2023-03-04  3:01                       ` Joel Fernandes
2023-03-04  3:23                         ` Joel Fernandes [this message]
2023-03-07 14:08                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-03-07 20:19                   ` Joel Fernandes
2023-03-06 18:30               ` John Stultz
2023-03-08  1:31               ` Steven Rostedt
2023-03-08 20:04                 ` John Stultz
2023-03-08 20:41                   ` Steven Rostedt
2023-03-02 22:41       ` David Laight
2023-03-02 22:53         ` Steven Rostedt
2023-03-04  3:10 ` [PATCH v2] " John Stultz
2023-03-05 16:36   ` Steven Rostedt
2023-03-06 18:27     ` John Stultz
     [not found]   ` <20230306010323.2909-1-hdanton@sina.com>
2023-03-06 15:28     ` Steven Rostedt
     [not found]     ` <20230307003106.1768-1-hdanton@sina.com>
2023-03-07  1:58       ` Steven Rostedt
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2023-03-03  7:06 [PATCH] " Chunhui Li (李春辉)

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