* Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 12:43 PM Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Sure - how close is this to a straight: > > > > git revert 70800c3c0cc5 > > It's not really a revert. The code is different (and better) from the > straight revert, but perhaps equally importantly it also ends up with > a big comment about what's going on that made the original commit > wrong. > > So I'd suggest just taking the patch as-is, and not calling it a > revert. It may revert to the original _model_ of wakup list traversal, > but it does so differently enough that the patch itself is not a > revert. Ok, Waiman's patch is now the following commit in locking/urgent: a9e9bcb45b15: ("locking/rwsem: Prevent decrement of reader count before increment") it should get to you in a couple of days. Thanks, Ingo
