Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261797AbVCOTNk (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:13:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261787AbVCOTNS (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:13:18 -0500 Received: from mustang.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.3]:43461 "HELO mustang.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261802AbVCOTJm (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:09:42 -0500 Subject: Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.11-rc3-V0.7.38-01 From: Lee Revell To: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <1110574019.19093.23.camel@mindpipe> <1110578809.19661.2.camel@mindpipe> <20050315120053.GA4686@elte.hu> <20050315133540.GB4686@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:09:38 -0500 Message-Id: <1110913778.17931.2.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 802 Lines: 19 On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 13:05 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > Damn! The answer was right there in front of my eyes! Here's the cleanest > solution. I forgot about wait_on_bit_lock. I've converted all the locks > to use this instead. We probably need to get priority inheritence working > on this too someday, but for now it's better than wasting memory or > getting into deadlocks. > I am still not clear on why this did not hit with earlier kernels + PREEMPT_DESKTOP. Were the bitlocks introduced recently? Or was another lock-break patch dropped? Lee - 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/