linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC] perf_counter: Don't swap contexts containing locked mutex

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Message-ID: <18975.50009.814331.113052@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Date:	Fri, 29 May 2009 21:13:29 +1000
From:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] perf_counter: Don't swap contexts containing
	locked mutex

Ingo Molnar writes:

> looping in the remove-context retry loop.

Ah! We need to reload task inside the loop.  And possibly in other
places.

Paul.
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