On Mon, 19 Jun 2017, Kirill Tkhai wrote: > This series implements killable version of down_read() > similar to already existing down_write_killable() function. > Patches [1-2/7] add arch-independent low-level primitives > for the both rwsem types. > > Patches [3-6/7] add arch-dependent primitives for > the architectures, that use rwsem-xadd implementation. > The assembly code was modified in x86 case only, the rest > of architectures does not need such change. > > I tested the series in x86 (which uses RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM > config option), and also the RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK case, > which were manually written in Kconfig. alpha, ia64 and s390 > are compile-tested only, but I believe, their changes are > pretty easy. Please, people, who work with them, take your > look at the corresponding patches. >
I would have expected to see down_read_killable() actually used somewhere after its implementation as part of this patchset.
