[PATCH 0/6][BZ #11588] pi-condvars: add priority inheritance for pthread_cond_* internal lock

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 10:57:27AM -0500, Gratian Crisan wrote:
> "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote on 07/09/2014 
> 09:16:49 AM:
> 
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6][BZ #11588] pi-condvars: add priority 
> > inheritance for pthread_cond_* internal lock
> > 
> > On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 03:23:27PM -0500, Gratian Crisan wrote:
> > > Re-submitting an updated version of the series of patches Darren Hart 
> > > posted
> > > back in 2010. The basic problem they're addressing is the fact that 
> the
> > > pthread_cond* calls can cause an unbounded priority inversion, 
> described 
> > > in
> > > BZ #11588.
> > > 
> > > It took a while but the copyright assignments should all be sorted out 
> 
> > > now.
> > > Paul E. McKenny submitted the assignment on behalf of IBM and one was
> > > signed/submitted by relevant parties at National Instruments and FSF.
> > 
> > That did take some time, didn't it?
> 
> No kidding.
> 
> > OK, please help me out here...  Exactly which patches did you need me
> > to send out to exactly which email addresses?
> > 
> >                      Thanx, Paul
> > 
> 
> Here's my understanding of the situation (please correct me if I'm wrong):
> 
>  - Original patches were submitted to the libc-alpha mailing list by 
> Darren back in May 2010 (see 
> https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2010-05/msg00055.html and 
> follow-ups). They can also be found under the "Show Obsolete" link for 
> attachments in bugzilla (V2): 
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11588
> 
>  - At the end of last year (November/2013?) you've submitted a copyright 
> assignment on behalf of IBM for those patches.
> 
>  - A copyright assignment was submitted on behalf of National Instruments 
> for the changes I've made and signed by relevant parties in March 2014 
> (RMS for FSF and our VP of R&D for NI).
> 
>  - I have ported the original patch "[PATCH 1/6][BZ #11588] pi-condvars: 
> add protocol support to pthread_condattr_t" to glibc 2.19 and now 2.20 and 
> added the patches 4/6, 5/6, 6/6 in the latest submission.
> 
> I guess the question is do the original IBM patches need to be 
> re-submitted to libc-alpha@sourceware.org in order to fulfill the 
> copyright assignment requirements or is the original submission by Daren 
> (linked above) sufficient? Hopefully somebody on the libc-alpha list can 
> provide some guidance here.

I am OK with the concept of the retroactive copyright assignment.  ;-)

> Also we need somebody with access to confirm that the copyright.list was 
> updated with the assignments.

Ah, hopefully that catches up quickly.

							Thanx, Paul