Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753915AbaATQK7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jan 2014 11:10:59 -0500 Received: from mail-pd0-f172.google.com ([209.85.192.172]:36506 "EHLO mail-pd0-f172.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753715AbaATQK4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jan 2014 11:10:56 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 21:40:56 +0530 Message-ID: Subject: mutex ownership tracking From: Sriram V To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, What is the importance of ownership tracking of mutex? Why is it mandatory that the task which locked must unlock it to escape lockdep. -- Regards, Sriram -- 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/