From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2/4] net: use mutex_is_locked() for ASSERT_RTNL()
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 21:37:22 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071215.213722.216395103.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071214214418.0ecd5e67.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 21:44:18 -0800
> That sounds like a bug in mutex_trylock() to me.
I disagree, I have yet to see a legitimate case where doing a trylock
on a mutex lock didn't turn out to be a bug when performed in an
atomic context.
This is particularly true in the networking, the bonding driver
has provided some excellent examples over the years :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-16 5:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-14 0:02 [patch 2/4] net: use mutex_is_locked() for ASSERT_RTNL() akpm
2007-12-14 8:10 ` Herbert Xu
2007-12-14 8:22 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-14 8:30 ` Herbert Xu
2007-12-14 19:15 ` David Miller
2007-12-14 23:11 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-15 4:18 ` Herbert Xu
2007-12-15 5:44 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-15 6:10 ` Herbert Xu
2007-12-15 10:48 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-15 13:10 ` Herbert Xu
2007-12-16 5:44 ` David Miller
2007-12-16 7:13 ` Herbert Xu
2007-12-16 18:06 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-12-17 1:26 ` Herbert Xu
2007-12-17 7:26 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-12-17 7:31 ` Herbert Xu
2007-12-17 7:57 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-12-17 7:44 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-12-16 5:37 ` David Miller [this message]
2007-12-14 12:37 ` Johannes Berg
2007-12-14 12:46 ` Herbert Xu
2007-12-14 12:54 ` Johannes Berg
2007-12-14 19:30 ` David Miller
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