Re: [PATCH v2] kernel/locking: mutex: simplify access to the first entry in the wait-list

Ingo Molnar
2013-12-13T14:08:39Z

* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 07:24:06AM +0100, Andrzej Pietrasiewicz wrote:
> > Hello Ingo & Peter,
> >
> > I added Greg on Cc.
>
> > For quite a long time I've been sending the same SOB lines to the
> > linux-usb list.
>
> Then Greg is more forgiving. Doesn't make it right though.

Also, it's easy to not notice, and it has no testable side effects.

Yet if mistakes _are_ noticed like in this case then the inconsistency
should be fixed, as the SOB chains have specific meaning.

Thanks,

Ingo