Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] futex: Avoid taking hb lock if nothing to wakeup

From: Joe Perches
Date: Thu Dec 19 2013 - 17:35:27 EST


On Thu, 2013-12-19 at 20:42 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2013-12-19 at 20:25 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > * Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@xxxxxx>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@xxxxxx>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@xxxxxx>
> > >
> > > So, that's not a valid SOB sequence either, the person sending me a
> > > patch should be the last person in the SOB chain
> >
> > Which is why I had it like that in the original version.
>
> The problem with that order was that the first person should be the
> primary author and in the 'From' tag.
>
> A SOB chain is intended to depict the true propagation/route of a
> patch, from author, through maintainers who handle and forward it, to
> the maintainer who applies it to a Git tree. The patch starts up with
> a single SOB (the primary author's) and every 'hop' after that adds a
> SOB to the tail of the existing SOB chain.

Multiple "Signed-off-by:"s are also used when there are
multiple authors of a single patch.


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