Re: [RFC][PATCH] sched/wait_bit: Introduce wait_var_event()/wake_up_var()

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 09:58:42AM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > > > Argh, no no no.. That whole wait_for_atomic_t thing is a giant
> > > > trainwreck already and now you're making it worse still.
> 
> Your patch description needs to say why this isn't a trainwreck when you
> consider wait_for_atomic_t() to be one since it does things in a very similar
> way.

Yeah, still writing changelogs..