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.
