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From: Bill Huey (hui) <billh@gnuppy.monkey.org>
To: Esben Nielsen <simlo@phys.au.dk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	david singleton <dsingleton@mvista.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Bill Huey (hui)" <billh@gnuppy.monkey.org>
Subject: Re: RT Mutex patch and tester [PREEMPT_RT]
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 02:22:55 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060116102255.GA19401@gnuppy.monkey.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0601160926360.4219-100000@lifa01.phys.au.dk>

On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 09:35:42AM +0100, Esben Nielsen wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Bill Huey wrote:
> I am not precisely sure what you mean by "false reporting".
> 
> Handing off BKL is done in schedule() in sched.c. I.e. if B owns a normal
> mutex, A will give BKL to B when A calls schedule() in the down-operation
> of that mutex.

Task A holding BKL would have to drop BKL when it blocks against a mutex held
by task B in my example and therefore must hit schedule() before any pi boost
operation happens. I'll take another look at your code just to see if this is
clear.

bill


  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-16 10:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-11 17:25 RT Mutex patch and tester [PREEMPT_RT] Esben Nielsen
2006-01-11 17:51 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-11 21:45   ` Esben Nielsen
2006-01-12 11:33 ` Bill Huey
2006-01-12 12:54   ` Esben Nielsen
2006-01-13  8:07     ` Bill Huey
2006-01-13  8:47       ` Esben Nielsen
2006-01-13 10:19         ` Bill Huey
2006-01-15  4:24 ` Bill Huey
2006-01-16  8:35   ` Esben Nielsen
2006-01-16 10:22     ` Bill Huey [this message]
2006-01-16 10:53       ` Bill Huey
2006-01-16 11:30         ` Esben Nielsen
     [not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0601181120100.1993-201000@lifa02.phys.au.dk>
2006-01-18 10:38   ` Ingo Molnar
2006-01-18 12:49   ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-18 14:18     ` Esben Nielsen
     [not found]   ` <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0601230047290.31387-201000@lifa01.phys.au.dk>
2006-01-23  0:38     ` david singleton
2006-01-23  2:04     ` Bill Huey
2006-01-23  9:33       ` Esben Nielsen
2006-01-23 14:23         ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-23 15:14           ` Esben Nielsen
2006-01-27 15:18             ` Esben Nielsen

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