Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] locking/percpu-rwsem: Annotate rwsem ownership transfer by setting RWSEM_OWNER_UNKNOWN | From | Waiman Long <> | Date | Tue, 15 May 2018 14:02:00 -0400 |
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On 05/15/2018 01:58 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 01:38:04PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote: >> +/* >> + * Owner value to indicate the rwsem's owner is not currently known. >> + */ >> +#define RWSEM_OWNER_UNKNOWN ((struct task_struct *)-1) > It might be nice to comment that this works and relies on having that > ANON_OWNER bit set.
I am just trying not to expose internal working of rwsem, but I can document that one of the bits is the real deal without specifying which one.
Cheers, Longman
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