Re: [PATCH v3 04/30] ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_WAIT_ANY.

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri Apr 12 2024 - 02:16:20 EST


On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 07:33:07PM -0500, Elizabeth Figura wrote:
> > Rolling your own lock is tricky, and needs review from the locking
> > maintainers. And probably some more documentation as to what is
> > happening and why our normal types of locks can't be used here?
>
> Definitely. (Unfortunately this hasn't gotten attention from any locking
> maintainer yet since your last call for review; not sure if there's
> anything I can do there.)

You only seem to have cc:ed one of the "LOCKING PRIMITIVES" maintainers
on this patchset, not all of them, which might be the reason why it has
been ignored :(

Perhaps change that for the next version of this patchset?

thanks,

greg k-h