linux-kernel - Re: [BUG on PREEMPT_RT, 2.6.23.1-rt5] in rt-mutex code and signals

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Date:	Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:54:10 -0800
From:	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Remy Bohmer <linux@...mer.net>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	RT <linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG on PREEMPT_RT, 2.6.23.1-rt5] in rt-mutex code and signals

On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 21:37 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2007-11-17 at 18:46 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > > fixing the top 20:
> > 
> > There are about 25 DECLARE_MUTEX() semaphores remaining .. One is the 
> > BKL which I would guess can't be converted. The others I've looked at 
> > appear to be trivial find/replace changes to get them to use the mutex 
> > type.. Any reason those haven't been converted over?
> 
> i guess talking about it instead of posting patches is a factor ;-)

There's several using init_MUTEX() (~70 or so), reviewing a few they
look fairly trivial ..

Daniel

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