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On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 16:10 +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > On Maw, 2005-12-13 at 15:39 +0000, David Howells 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. > > Only if you insist on replacing them immediately. If you submit a > *small* patch which just adds the new mutexes then a series of small > patches can gradually convert code where mutexes are better. this unfortunately is not very realistic in practice... - 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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