Re: [RFC][PATCH v14 2/7] locking/mutex: Rework task_struct::blocked_on

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Dec 17 2024 - 04:24:35 EST


On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 09:01:24PM -0800, John Stultz wrote:
> > Specifically, slide 27 talks about a modification to try_to_wake_up() in
> > order to force the task into ttwu_runnable() such that it then hits
> > proxy_needs_return(). This latter part I can find, but not the former.
> >
> > /me puzzles
>
> So the slides actually have links to the code at that time, which
> should be the v12 series:
> https://github.com/johnstultz-work/linux-dev/commits/proxy-exec-v12-6.11-rc5

Oh, no the reason I looked at -v7 is that I thought it was the most
recent one.

This github piece of shit lists it as the first 'proxy-exec-v7*' in the
branch pull down with earlier version below it.

Only if you scoll down further (which I didn't, because why would I),
you'll eventually come across 'proxy-exec-v14*'.

I'm looking forward to the day where the web implodes under its own
incompetence, urgh, web sucks.