Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/7] locking/rwsem: Convert rwsem count to atomic_long_t

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Mon May 16 2016 - 21:12:32 EST


On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 5:37 PM, Jason Low <jason.low2@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This rest of the series converts the rwsem count variable to an atomic_long_t
> since it is used it as an atomic variable. This allows us to also remove
> the rwsem_atomic_{add,update} abstraction and reduce 100+ lines of code.

I would suggest you merge all the "remove rwsem_atomic_{add,update}"
patches into a single patch.

I don't see the advantage to splitting those up by architecture, and
it does add noise to the series.

Other than that it all looks fine to me.

Linus