Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754381AbZAFVwX (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2009 16:52:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751750AbZAFVwK (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2009 16:52:10 -0500 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:53258 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751403AbZAFVwI (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2009 16:52:08 -0500 Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 13:50:54 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain To: Peter Zijlstra cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Gregory Haskins , Ingo Molnar , Matthew Wilcox , Andi Kleen , Chris Mason , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel , linux-btrfs , Thomas Gleixner , Steven Rostedt , Nick Piggin , Peter Morreale , Sven Dietrich Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC]: mutex: adaptive spin In-Reply-To: <1231278275.11687.111.camel@twins> Message-ID: References: <87r63ljzox.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> <20090103191706.GA2002@parisc-linux.org> <1231093310.27690.5.camel@twins> <20090104184103.GE2002@parisc-linux.org> <1231242031.11687.97.camel@twins> <20090106121052.GA27232@elte.hu> <4963584A.4090805@novell.com> <20090106131643.GA15228@elte.hu> <1231248041.11687.107.camel@twins> <49636799.1010109@novell.com> <20090106214229.GD6741@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1231278275.11687.111.camel@twins> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 598 Lines: 17 On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > With Linus' mutex_spin_or_schedule() function the whole - keeping > owner's task_struct alive issue goes away,.. now if only the thing would > boot... Can you post the patch, so that we can see if we can find some silly error that we can ridicule you over? Linus "always willing to 'help'" Torvalds -- 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/