Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 5 Nov 2013 08:18:38 -0500 | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: [RFC 0/8] Move locking primitives into kernel/locking/ |
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On Tue, 05 Nov 2013 13:10:44 +0100 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> Hi all, > > During Kernel Summit Dave mentioned that there wasn't a clear maintainer for > locking bits. > > To remedy this Ingo suggested gathering all the various locking primitives and > lockdep into a single place: kernel/locking/. > > I would further like to propose a MAINTAINERS entry like: > > LOCKING > M: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> > M: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> > M: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> > M: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > M: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> > T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git locking/core > S: Maintained > F: kernel/locking/
I wonder if it should be called kernel/locks, as that's less to type, smaller path names, and tastes good on bagels.
-- Steve
> > Because for most 'fun' locking discussions we usually end up with at least > those people anyway :-) >
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