Re: 2.6.18 -mm pi-futex merge

Steven Rostedt
2006-06-06T12:32:13Z

On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 13:50 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

> pi-futex-futex-code-cleanups.patch
> pi-futex-robust-futex-docs-fix.patch
> pi-futex-introduce-debug_check_no_locks_freed.patch
> pi-futex-introduce-warn_on_smp.patch
> pi-futex-add-plist-implementation.patch
> pi-futex-scheduler-support-for-pi.patch
> pi-futex-rt-mutex-core.patch
> pi-futex-rt-mutex-docs.patch
> pi-futex-rt-mutex-docs-update.patch
> pi-futex-rt-mutex-debug.patch
> pi-futex-rt-mutex-tester.patch
> pi-futex-rt-mutex-futex-api.patch
> pi-futex-futex_lock_pi-futex_unlock_pi-support.patch
> #
> futex_requeue-optimization.patch
>
> Priority-inheriting futexes. I don't have a clue how this code works,
> but it sure has a lot of trylocks for something which allegedly works.
> Will merge.

Andrew, I wrote the rt-mutex-design.txt just so you would have a clue :)

If you have any questions, I would be happy to update it to make it
clearer.

-- Steve