Re: [patch 4/6] rtmutex: Confine deadlock logic to futex

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Wed May 28 2014 - 16:28:30 EST


On Thu, 22 May 2014, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 03:25:50AM -0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > The builtin tester is gone,, so the deadlock logic is now only
> > required for futexes.
> >
> > Remove the extra arguments for the public functions and also for the
> > futex specific ones which get always called with deadlock detection
> > enabled.
>
> This reminds me, the raw rt_mutex primitives have no lockdep support,
> and we've grown a few users in-tree. We should fix that.

It shouldn't be that hard. We just need to exclude the futex mess ...

Thanks,

tglx

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