Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] Virtually mapped stacks with guard pages (x86, core)

Peter Zijlstra
2016-06-23T18:56:15Z

On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 08:12:16PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
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> And probably kill task_struct->blocked_on? I do not see the point of
> this task->blocked_on != waiter check.

I think that came about because of PI and or deadlock detection. Of
course, the current mutex code doesn't have anything like that these
days, and rt_mutex has task_struct::pi_blocked_on.