Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] futex: Avoid taking hb lock if nothing to wakeup

From: Davidlohr Bueso
Date: Tue Dec 10 2013 - 11:17:42 EST


On Tue, 2013-12-10 at 16:36 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2013-12-06 at 19:26 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > On Tue, 3 Dec 2013, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> > > > Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@xxxxxx>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@xxxxxx>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@xxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Who is the author of this? According to the SOB chains its Waiman, who
> > > handed it down to Jason and it finally got sumbitted by you. Is that
> > > correct?
> >
> > This was a group effort for the original patchset -- things did change
> > quite a bit for this particular patch in v2. Waiman and Jason helped
> > review and test the original atomic ops code.
>
> Then please put that into the credits (in the changelog and/or in the
> source code), and/or into copyright notices, etc. - but keep the
> SOB-chain the true route of the patch, where the primary author is the
> first in the SOB and where the person sending the patch is the last
> SOB. (the two are identical normally.)

Ok, I wasn't aware of that primary author rule, sorry. The exact same
thing would go for patch 2 then. Is this something you want me to
correct for this particular series, or to keep in mind for the future?

Thanks,
Davidlohr

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