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SubjectRe: PI BUG with -rt13

* david singleton <dsingleton@mvista.com> wrote:

> >both rt_mutex_free() and rt_mutex_set_owner() must be called with the
> >proper locking. David?
>
> Yes, the lock needs to be protected by the robust semaphore.
> The locking order is:
>
> mmap_sem to protect the vma that holds the pthread_mutex
>
> robust_sem to protect the futex_mutex chain.
>
> futex_mutex - the rt_mutex associated with the
> pthread_mutex.

well, also lock->wait_lock and lock->pi_lock. The act of making another
thread the owner of this particular mutex must be performed carefully.
Check out rt.c to see what locking dependencies there are. (We can also
do a lockless cmpxchg for unlocked mutexes, under certain
circumstances.)

Ingo
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