From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Oleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru>
Cc: Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
mingo@redhat.com, arjan@linux.intel.com,
"J . Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
Jeff Layton <jlayton@poochiereds.net>
Subject: Re: initialize a mutex into locked state?
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 10:25:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160617082559.GD30935@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55315ADD-4AE1-4EA4-8291-1B07F659BD99@linuxhacker.ru>
On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 02:23:35PM -0400, Oleg Drokin wrote:
> Hello!
>
> To my surprise I found out that it's not possible to initialise a mutex into
> a locked state.
> I discussed it with Arjan and apparently there's no fundamental reason
> not to allow this.
There is. A mutex _must_ have an owner. If you can initialize it in
locked state, you could do so statically, ie. outside of the context of
a task.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-17 8:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-15 18:23 initialize a mutex into locked state? Oleg Drokin
2016-06-17 8:25 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2016-06-17 14:14 ` Oleg Drokin
2016-06-17 14:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-06-17 14:24 ` Oleg Drokin
2016-06-17 14:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-06-17 14:40 ` Oleg Drokin
2016-06-17 14:42 ` Jeff Layton
2016-06-17 14:54 ` Oleg Drokin
2016-06-17 14:59 ` Arjan van de Ven
2016-06-17 14:59 ` Peter Zijlstra
[not found] ` <CAC0gvwFhyahkP9M7Ktfd0GOv8CJbkeVegSfc57XpEUk8qAGA1w@mail.gmail.com>
2016-06-17 14:46 ` Oleg Drokin
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