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SubjectRe: [patch 2.6.13-rc6] i386: semaphore ownership tracking
On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 15:01:27 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:

> How is it different from the ownership tracking used for PI in the -rt
> kernel?

Those are a completely new type of mutex (rt_mutex.) Mine is a very
low-overhead (3 extra instructions in down()) addition to the normal
Linux semaphores. I guess they are called compat_semaphores in -rt,
and I didn't see any ownership tracking for them in the -rt patch.

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Chuck
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