Re: [PATCH v3 0/1] MR4310: ntdll: Tweak the binary representation of SRWLOCK.

[Zebediah Figura (＠zfigura)]

On Mon Nov  6 16:28:16 2023 +0000, Yuxuan Shui wrote:
> OK, I looked around a bit. `WaitOnAddress` has a size parameter, isn't
> that enough to indicate waiting on `owners` only? We don't need the
> non-four-byte-aligned-ness for that.

The problem is that RtlWakeByAddress doesn't specify a size. If 'owners' is the first field, we can't distinguish between waking exclusive and shared waiters anymore. That's correct (I think?) but it means more spurious wakeups.