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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 03/10] locking/rwsem: Rename kernel/locking/rwsem.h
    On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 10:47:11AM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
    > On 02/13/2019 04:19 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
    > > On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 07:27:00PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
    > >> The content of kernel/locking/rwsem.h is now specific to rwsem-xadd only.
    > >> Rename it to rwsem-xadd.h to indicate that it is specific to rwsem-xadd
    > >> and include it only when CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM is set. As a result,
    > >> the CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM conditional compilation directives can
    > >> be removed. There is no functional change.
    > > Since all of rwsem-xadd is now generic code; how about we delete the
    > > spinlock thing and keep everything rwsem ?
    > >
    > > We don't carry a special spinlock mutex implementation either. And
    > > arguably any arch that uses spinlock based atomics (afaict the only case
    > > where rwsem-spinlock makes any sense anyway) suck anyway.
    >
    > I don't mind removing the rwsem-spinlock code and have just one
    > implementation for all as long as there is no objection from others. I
    > don't know the history of why we have 2 implementations of rwsem and so
    > I didn't plan to do that.

    It is from before my time too; but I think rwsem-spinlock is generic and
    didn't require arch asm helpers, where rwsem-xadd did, but we just fixed
    that :-)

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