On Mon, 2014-05-05 at 18:31 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 09:03:28AM -0700, Tim Chen wrote: > > On Mon, 2014-05-05 at 01:46 -0700, tip-bot for Tim Chen wrote: > > > Commit-ID: 3cf2f34e1a3d4d5ff209d087925cf950e52f4805 > > > Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/3cf2f34e1a3d4d5ff209d087925cf950e52f4805 > > > Author: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > AuthorDate: Fri, 2 May 2014 12:53:57 -0700 > > > Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > CommitDate: Sun, 4 May 2014 20:34:26 +0200 > > > > > > > Ingo, > > > > Can you pick up this version of the patch instead. I've updated the > > comments to reflect all cases for which the rwsem's count is less than > > WAITING_BIAS, as Peter has pointed out. > > Wouldn't a state diagram be clearer than this gobs of text? The state is represented by the count field with an explanation of what each state actually means. I started off with a pretty abbreviated version. But to account for the readers and writers that are in transient trying to acquire the lock, the comments get more verbose, unfortunately. Tim -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html