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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	mingo@redhat.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/12]: MUTEX: Implement mutexes
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 13:41:26 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1134934887.3517.15.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0512181027220.4827@g5.osdl.org>

On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 10:42 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> It's easy enough to add a "might_sleep()" to the up(). Not strictly true, 
> but conceptually it would make sense to make up/down match in that sense. 
> We'd have to mark the (few) places that do down_trylock() + up() in 
> interrupt context with a special "up_in_interrupt()", but that would be ok 
> even from a documentation standpoint.

Actually, I don't think you want might_sleep(): there are a few cases
where we do an up() from under a spinlock, which will spuriously trigger
this.  I'd suggest WARN_ON(in_interrupt()) instead.

James

  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-18 19:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-16 23:13 [PATCH 0/12]: MUTEX: Introduce mutex implementation David Howells
2005-12-16 23:13 ` [PATCH 2/12]: MUTEX: Provide SWAP-based mutex for FRV David Howells
2005-12-16 23:13 ` [PATCH 3/12]: MUTEX: Rename DECLARE_MUTEX for arch/ dir David Howells
2005-12-16 23:13 ` [PATCH 1/12]: MUTEX: Implement mutexes David Howells
2005-12-17  3:58   ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-17  7:35     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-17 19:21       ` David Howells
2005-12-17 20:11         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-17 21:44           ` Russell King
2005-12-18  1:29           ` Nicolas Pitre
2005-12-18  2:34             ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-18  4:07               ` Nicolas Pitre
2005-12-18  4:18                 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-18  6:30                 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-18  9:26                   ` Russell King
2005-12-18 18:42                     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-18 19:41                       ` James Bottomley [this message]
2005-12-18 19:54                         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-19  1:48                       ` Nicolas Pitre
2005-12-19  9:27                         ` Russell King
2005-12-19 13:54                           ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-12-19 15:49                             ` Nicolas Pitre
2005-12-19 15:45                           ` Nicolas Pitre
2005-12-18 17:29                   ` Nicolas Pitre
2005-12-18 13:38             ` Alan Cox
2005-12-18 17:21               ` Nicolas Pitre
2005-12-17  7:55     ` Nick Piggin
2005-12-17 12:36       ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-16 23:13 ` [PATCH 11/12]: MUTEX: Rename DECLARE_MUTEX for miscellaneous directories David Howells
2005-12-16 23:13 ` [PATCH 5/12]: MUTEX: Rename DECLARE_MUTEX for drivers/ dir, N thru Z David Howells
2005-12-16 23:13 ` [PATCH 9/12]: MUTEX: Rename DECLARE_MUTEX for net/ dir David Howells
2005-12-16 23:13 ` [PATCH 8/12]: MUTEX: Rename DECLARE_MUTEX for kernel/ dir David Howells
2005-12-16 23:13 ` [PATCH 7/12]: MUTEX: Rename DECLARE_MUTEX for include/asm-*/ dirs David Howells
2005-12-16 23:13 ` [PATCH 6/12]: MUTEX: Rename DECLARE_MUTEX for fs/ dir David Howells
2005-12-16 23:13 ` [PATCH 10/12]: MUTEX: Rename DECLARE_MUTEX for sound/ dir David Howells
2005-12-16 23:13 ` [PATCH 4/12]: MUTEX: Rename DECLARE_MUTEX for drivers/ dir, A thru M David Howells
2005-12-16 23:13 ` [PATCH 12/12]: MUTEX: Provide synchronisation primitive testing module David Howells

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