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* David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote: > (3) Some people want mutexes to be: > > (a) only releasable in the same context as they were taken > > (b) not accessible in interrupt context, or that (a) applies here also > > (c) not initialisable to the locked state > > But this means that the current usages all have to be carefully audited, > and sometimes that unobvious. (a) and (c) is not a big problem, are they are essentially the constraints of -rt mutexes. As long as there's good debugging code, it's very much doable. We dont want to change semantics _yet again_, later down the line. Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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