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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH] rtmutex: Do not prio boost when timeout is used
On Sat, 26 Apr 2014 13:04:37 +0200
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 04:28:48PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > I've been discussing an issue on IRC with deadlock checking and found
> > something wrong with it. Mainly, if any of the locks have a timeout,
> > then even if the chain loops, there is no real deadlock. If one of the
> > locks in the chain times out, then things will move forward again.
>
>
> POSIX (opengroup):
>
> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/pthread_mutex_timedlock.html
>
> Explicitly states that pthread_mutex_timedlock() should participate in
> the PI chain, it also states that its perfectly valid for this function
> to return -EDEADLK.
>
> Therefore, there's nothing wrong. If this behaviour breaks userspace,
> its already broken for not actually expecting the right thing.

Fair enough. Thanks for the link.

-- Steve


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