Re: [PATCH 08/12] rwsem: smaller wrappers around rwsem_down_failed_common

[Michel Lespinasse]

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 5:42 AM, David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Michel Lespinasse <walken@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Following change also enjoys having flags available in a register rather
>> than having to fish it out in the struct rwsem_waiter...
>
> So what?  It doesn't use flags in rwsem_down_failed_common().

I meant patch 10 wants to use the flags in order to know whether to
queue at the head or tail of the waiter list.

Apologies for the compile error, patches 8 and 10 used to be a single
change and were split off relatively late. :/

-- 
Michel "Walken" Lespinasse
A program is never fully debugged until the last user dies.
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