linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL, v2] core/locking changes for v2.6.35

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Date:	Wed, 19 May 2010 04:23:45 +0530
From:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderlinux@...il.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL, v2] core/locking changes for v2.6.35

Hello Ingo,

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
>
> * Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 17 May 2010, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> >
>> > Tony Breeds (1):
>> >       mutex: Fix optimistic spinning vs. BKL
>>
>> Grr. This has the ugly timeout thing, but what's _really_ ugly about it is
>>
>>       kernel/mutex.c: In function ‘__mutex_lock_common’:
>>       kernel/mutex.c:148: warning: unused variable ‘timeout’
>>
>> Nasty. It happens when spinning is disabled due to
>> lockdep or whatever debugging that kills it.
>
> Sorry about that.
>

Sweet, you do not forgive others, but you expect that others forgive you.

--
Jaswinder Singh.
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