* Waiman Long <long...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 04/11/2019 04:12 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 02:42:19PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> >> The owner field in the rw_semaphore structure is used primarily for
> >> optimistic spinning. However, identifying the rwsem owner can also be
> >> helpful in debugging as well as tracing locking related issues when
> >> analyzing crash dump. The owner field may also store state information
> >> that can be important to the operation of the rwsem.
> >>
> >> So the owner field is now made a permanent member of the rw_semaphore
> >> structure irrespective of CONFIG_RWSEM_SPIN_ON_OWNER.
> > sem->owner is still initialized under CONFIG_RWSEM_SPIN_ON_OWNER.
>
> Oh, you are right. I missed that part. I will fix it in the next version.
Could you please post the next series against tip:WIP.locking/core, which
is already being dogfood-ed in -tip and which I'm running on my desktop?
I'll backmerge any fixes as needed/requested.
Thanks,
Ingo
