Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761595Ab3DBK4a (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Apr 2013 06:56:30 -0400 Received: from merlin.infradead.org ([205.233.59.134]:39963 "EHLO merlin.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753244Ab3DBK42 (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Apr 2013 06:56:28 -0400 Message-ID: <1364900174.18374.19.camel@laptop> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] mutex: add support for reservation style locks, v2 From: Peter Zijlstra To: Maarten Lankhorst Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch, x86@kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org, robclark@gmail.com, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@elte.hu, linux-media@vger.kernel.org Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:56:14 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20130228102502.15191.14146.stgit@patser> References: <20130228102452.15191.22673.stgit@patser> <20130228102502.15191.14146.stgit@patser> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.6.2-0ubuntu0.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 754 Lines: 19 On Thu, 2013-02-28 at 11:25 +0100, Maarten Lankhorst wrote: > +mutex_reserve_lock_slow and mutex_reserve_lock_intr_slow: > + Similar to mutex_reserve_lock, except it won't backoff with > -EAGAIN. > + This is useful when mutex_reserve_lock failed with -EAGAIN, and you > + unreserved all reservation_locks so no deadlock can occur. > + I don't particularly like these function names, with lock implementations the _slow post-fix is typically used for slow path implementations, not API type interfaces. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/