Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759325AbXEJHha (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 03:37:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756671AbXEJHhX (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 03:37:23 -0400 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.227]:2470 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755171AbXEJHhW (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 03:37:22 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=tfdRwvQZC1ORzgZgUsRx2cdtt1ayaCHZi79IrwjMWQ4ufrsvy+vZWFZl+u9LJpc20v90CapW2ac++eEB/29cZSNBis/vl7njbtX/Ru2j8SHMRB95V1WNZBPqb03hLoxt6W2G1l9clesRHYTGmoOB6J7m4o+Ps3YX0Ar3rwEnnpA= Message-ID: <4642CB06.2080409@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 15:34:30 +0800 From: Li Yu User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070403) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steven Rostedt CC: LKML Subject: Hi, I have one question about rt_mutex. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=GB2312 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1144 Lines: 32 Hi, Steven. Nice to meet you again. I have read the rt-mutex-design.txt that you wrote. That is excellent description of rt_mutex. But I have a question for rt_mutex. As you said: > Now since mutexes can be defined by user-land applications, we don't want a DOS > type of application that nests large amounts of mutexes to create a large > PI chain, and have the code holding spin locks while looking at a large > amount of data. So to prevent this, the implementation not only implements > a maximum lock depth, but also only holds at most two different locks at a > time, as it walks the PI chain. More about this below. After read the implementation of rt_mutex_adjust_prio_chain(), I found the we really require maximin lock depth (1024 default), but I can not see the check for more same locks duplication. Does this doc is inconsistent with code? Thanks in advanced. Good luck. - Li Yu - 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/