Re: [PATCH RT 4/8] rtmutex: use a trylock for waiter lock intrylock

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Thu Jan 16 2014 - 23:22:38 EST


On Thu, 16 Jan 2014 04:08:57 +0100
Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 2014-01-15 at 20:58 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>
>
> > 3.2.53-rt76-rc1 stable review patch.
> > If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
>
> Not sure this is needed without the tglx don't unconditionally raise
> timer softirq patch, and with that patch applied in the form it exists
> in 3.12-rt9, as well as this one, you'll still eventually deadlock.

Hmm, I'll have to take a look. This sounds to be missing from all the
stable -rt kernels. I'll be pulling in the latest updates from 3.12-rt
soon.

Thanks,

-- Steve

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