Re: [tip:locking/core] rwsem: Add comments to explain the meaning of the rwsem's count field

[Ingo Molnar]

* Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, 2014-05-05 at 01:46 -0700, tip-bot for Tim Chen wrote:
> > Commit-ID:  3cf2f34e1a3d4d5ff209d087925cf950e52f4805
> > Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/3cf2f34e1a3d4d5ff209d087925cf950e52f4805
> > Author:     Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > AuthorDate: Fri, 2 May 2014 12:53:57 -0700
> > Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > CommitDate: Sun, 4 May 2014 20:34:26 +0200
> > 
> 
> Ingo,
> 
> Can you pick up this version of the patch instead.  I've updated the 
> comments to reflect all cases for which the rwsem's count is less 
> than WAITING_BIAS, as Peter has pointed out.

Please send a delta patch against the one I applied - and also the 
state diagram suggestion with Peter, once it's clear what form it 
should take. I've yet to see a state diagram that was inferior to 
equivalent textual description - is this case an exception to that?

Thanks,

	Ingo
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