Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 15 Jan 2006 05:42:05 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.15-mm4 |
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* Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org> wrote:
> >Could you try the patch below? > > Yes, it does fix it. What's the bug ? The mutexes are supposed to work > where semaphores do, aren't they ?
no, not always. We could introduce mutex_trylock_irqsafe() and mutex_unlock_irqsafe(), but it's probably not worth doing it - it's just 3-4 cases so far, out of hundreds of mutex conversions.
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