Re: [PATCH v5 3/3] locking/mutex: Ensure forward progress of waiter-spinner

From: Jason Low
Date: Fri Aug 19 2016 - 00:03:15 EST


On Thu, 2016-08-18 at 17:58 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 11:01:27AM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> > The following is the updated patch that should fix the build error in
> > non-x86 platform.
> >
>
> This patch was whitespace challenged, but I think I munged it properly.
>
> I've also stuck something based on Jason's patch on top. Please have a
> look at:
>
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/peterz/queue.git/log/?h=locking/core

Should we convert the flags back to type 'bool'? We're using them as
booleans and we could also leave unneeded space available in case we
ever need to squeeze some more variable(s) in the structure.