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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: inaky@linux.intel.com
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	mingo@redhat.com, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 0/2] semaphores: add down_interruptible_timeout() and asm-generic/semaphore.h
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:33:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070227003313.GA7360@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070227001338.344233745@sodium.jf.intel.com>

On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 04:13:38PM -0800, inaky@linux.intel.com wrote:
> Introduce down_interruptible_timeout() using timers to make the waiter
> stop waiting by simulating a signal (see first patch for more
> details). As well introduce asm-generic/semaphore.h and make other
> architectures use it too.

What do you want this for?  Do you really need a full counting semaphore
or do you actually want a mutex?


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-02-27  0:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-27  0:13 [patch 0/2] semaphores: add down_interruptible_timeout() and asm-generic/semaphore.h inaky
2007-02-27  0:13 ` [patch 1/2] semaphores: Add down_interruptible_timeout() inaky
2007-02-27  0:13 ` [patch 2/2] semaphores: all arches use include/asm-generic/semaphore.h inaky
2007-02-27  0:33 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2007-02-27  0:54   ` [patch 0/2] semaphores: add down_interruptible_timeout() and asm-generic/semaphore.h Inaky Perez-Gonzalez
2007-02-27  2:18     ` Alan
2007-02-27  1:57       ` Inaky Perez-Gonzalez
2007-02-27 20:45         ` Ingo Oeser
2007-03-03  1:17           ` Inaky Perez-Gonzalez
2007-02-27 20:24     ` Andrew Morton

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