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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/3] locking: ww_mutex: Allow to use rt_mutex instead of mutex for the baselock
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On Fri, 2015-02-27 at 17:57 +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> This patch makes it possible to replace the base mutex by a rt_mutex. In
> general one would not do this.

I would argue that the thing should be born as a full fledged primitive,
not a config option, as an rt_ww_mutex is the ww extension of rt_mutex.
We have to do the global substitution in -rt, but why should it not
exist in its own right in mainline?

-Mike



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