Re: Who owns those locks ?

[Bjorn Helgaas]

On Wednesday 12 May 2004 3:56 am, Zoltan Menyhart wrote:
> Got a dead lock ?
> No idea how you got there ?
> 
> Why don't you put the ID of the owner of the lock in the lock word ?
> Here is your patch for IA-64.
> Doesn't cost any additional instruction, you can have it in your
> "production" kernel, too.

Whatever happened with this patch?  I really like the idea, but
it seems like it died on the vine.  Maybe it's time to clean it
up, pull all the bits together, and repost it.
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