From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755898Ab1AKLJc (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jan 2011 06:09:32 -0500 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:55989 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755777Ab1AKLJ2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jan 2011 06:09:28 -0500 Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:09:14 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Steven Rostedt Cc: LKML , Thomas Gleixner , Andrew Morton , Darren Hart , Lai Jiangshan Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] rtmutex: Fix comment about why new_owner can be NULL in wake_futex_pi() Message-ID: <20110111110914.GD5253@elte.hu> References: <1294719469.26623.246.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1294719469.26623.246.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) X-ELTE-SpamScore: -2.0 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-2.0 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.5 -2.0 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Steven Rostedt wrote: > > Ingo, > > While porting Lai Jiangshan's rt-pi patch to the -rt kernel, I found > that the comment about why rt_mutex_next_owner() can return NULL is > incorrect. This caused Lai to remove the following if condition, which > caused a bit of headache in debugging why his patch was causing a crash. > > Please pull the latest tip/futex tree, which can be found at: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace.git > tip/futex > > > Steven Rostedt (1): > rtmutex: Fix comment about why new_owner can be NULL in wake_futex_pi() > > ---- > kernel/futex.c | 7 +++---- > 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) Pulled into tip:core/urgent, thanks Steve! Ingo