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From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/3] ipc/sem: fix -rt livelock
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2013 13:28:51 +0200
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On 10/04/2013 01:16 PM, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> Manfred's race fix also kills loop, and thereby the -rt livelock, so the
> only question is does -rt want to use his completion wakeup scheme, and
> does it want to do something about spin_unlock_wait() unconditionally
> grabbing/releasing every lock in the array.

So his patches went into v3.11 or so right? So all -RT released post
this point will have it fixed right?
However if this is something that bugs people using -RT it might worth
looking at it.

> -Mike
> 
Sebastian