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SubjectRe: [RFC][-rt PATCH] Try to safely error out when mixing pi/non-pi futex operations on the same futex.

* john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> Ingo,
> We've been seeing some oopses because there are waiters on pi
> futexes that do not have pi_states. This seems to be because they were
> used w/ futex_wait in one path and futex_lock_pi in another.

indeed, that's a bug.

> I'm told this shouldn't ever happen, but if it did, the kernel should
> safely error out, instead of oopsing or never releasing a lock.
>
> Not sure if this is a solid fix (it does build and boot), but
> hopefully it will stir up some discussion.

applied. I made some small fixes: i made the printk rate-limited and
dependent on CONFIG_DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES. The right thing is indeed to
-EINVAL.

Ingo
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