Re: [PATCH-tip v7 00/20] locking/rwsem: Rwsem rearchitecture part 2

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 5:28 PM Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Not really, this is a serious problem that have to be backported to
> earlier stable releases and downstream. The clever code is helpful in
> those cases.

Fair enough, I guess the code will live in the stable trees for a longish while.

               Linus