From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC]: mutex: adaptive spin
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 13:50:54 -0800 (PST)
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	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
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	Peter Morreale <pmorreale@novell.com>,
	Sven Dietrich <SDietrich@novell.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
> With Linus' mutex_spin_or_schedule() function the whole - keeping
> owner's task_struct alive issue goes away,.. now if only the thing would
> boot...

Can you post the patch, so that we can see if we can find some silly error 
that we can ridicule you over?

		Linus "always willing to 'help'" Torvalds