Re: [GIT PULL] rtmutex: Fix comment about why new_owner can be NULLin wake_futex_pi()

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Jan 11 2011 - 06:09:35 EST



* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> Ingo,
>
> While porting Lai Jiangshan's rt-pi patch to the -rt kernel, I found
> that the comment about why rt_mutex_next_owner() can return NULL is
> incorrect. This caused Lai to remove the following if condition, which
> caused a bit of headache in debugging why his patch was causing a crash.
>
> Please pull the latest tip/futex tree, which can be found at:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace.git
> tip/futex
>
>
> Steven Rostedt (1):
> rtmutex: Fix comment about why new_owner can be NULL in wake_futex_pi()
>
> ----
> kernel/futex.c | 7 +++----
> 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Pulled into tip:core/urgent, thanks Steve!

Ingo
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