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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] mutex: add support for reservation style locks,
 v2
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:57:54 +0200
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On Thu, 2013-02-28 at 11:25 +0100, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
> +struct ticket_mutex {
> +       struct mutex base;
> +       atomic_long_t reservation_id;
> +};

I'm not sure this is a good name, esp. due to the potential confusion
vs the ticket spinlocks we have.