linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/5] mutex debug: add generic blocked

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Date:	Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:21:31 -0700
From:	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...il.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] mutex debug: add generic blocked_on usage


On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 07:25 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 13:49 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> > plain text document attachment (blocked_on-mutex.patch)
> 
> > -#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES
> > -	/* mutex deadlock detection */
> > -	struct mutex_waiter *blocked_on;
> > -#endif
> > +	/*
> > +	 * Deadlock detection and priority inheritance handling,
> > +	 * and any other out of line mutex operations
> > +	 */
> > +	struct lock_waiter_state *blocked_on;
> 
> Now you grew task_struct unconditionally, how about
> 
> #if defined CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEX || defined CONFIG_RT_MUTEXES || defined CONFIG_FUTEX
> 
> ?

Ok .. I didn't add it cause I wasn't convinced RT_MUTEXES was
optional .. There's a lot of PI futex related code that isn't ifdef'd
either..

Daniel

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