Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Jun 2014 12:53:07 -0400 | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: safety of *mutex_unlock() (Was: [BUG] signal: sighand unprotected when accessed by /proc) |
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On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 18:43:59 +0200 Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> wrote:
> And (contrary to what I said initially) we can rely on this because -rt > converts spinlock_t into rt_mutex ?
Correct. Because if spinlock_t has this behavior, rt_mutex must have it too, otherwise -rt will suffer greatly from that. Who knows, maybe this will fix some strange bug reports that we have had in the past.
-- Steve
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