RE: [PATCH] Abstracted Priority Inheritance for RT

[Daniel Walker]

On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 17:10 -0700, Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky wrote:

> Maybe he is referring to the case?
> 
> A owns M
> B owns N and is waiting for M
> A is trying to wait for N
> 
> These deadlocking cases can be tricky during PI.


The bulk of the code is from the current RT mutex, so I'm assuming it
handles this case correctly. However, the rt mutex isn't in userspace ,
so task A or B was a user space task , then the problem would need to be
explored.. How does PI change if A or B are user space tasks?

Daniel

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