Re: [PATCH v3] pstore: Revert pmsg_lock back to a normal mutex

From: Kees Cook
Date: Wed Mar 08 2023 - 18:03:04 EST


On Wed, 8 Mar 2023 20:40:43 +0000, John Stultz wrote:
> This reverts commit 76d62f24db07f22ccf9bc18ca793c27d4ebef721.
>
> So while priority inversion on the pmsg_lock is an occasional
> problem that an rt_mutex would help with, in uses where logging
> is writing to pmsg heavily from multiple threads, the pmsg_lock
> can be heavily contended.
>
> [...]

Applied to for-next/pstore, thanks!

[1/1] pstore: Revert pmsg_lock back to a normal mutex
https://git.kernel.org/kees/c/5239a89b06d6

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Kees Cook