Re: [PATCH v5 06/13] lockdep: Implement crossrelease feature

[Byungchul Park]

On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 02:17:07PM +0900, Byungchul Park wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 04:49:00PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 10:17:32PM +0900, Byungchul Park wrote:
> > 
> > > +struct cross_lock {
> > > +	/*
> > > +	 * When more than one acquisition of crosslocks are overlapped,
> > > +	 * we do actual commit only when ref == 0.
> > > +	 */
> > > +	atomic_t ref;
> > 
> > That comment doesn't seem right, should that be: ref != 0 ?
> > Also; would it not be much clearer to call this: nr_blocked, or waiters
> > or something along those lines, because that is what it appears to be.

Honestly, I forgot why I introduced the ref.. I will remove the ref next
spin, and handle waiters in another way.

Thank you,
Byungchul