linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/4] futex: free_pi_state outside of hb->lock sections

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Message-ID: <1278931563.1537.184.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
Date:	Mon, 12 Jul 2010 06:46:03 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	Darren Hart <dvhltc@...ibm.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	John Kacur <jkacur@...hat.com>, Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] futex: free_pi_state outside of hb->lock sections

On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 12:35 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Jul 2010, Darren Hart wrote:
> 
> > free_pi_state() calls kfree() and might sleep. To prepare for raw hb->locks,
> > get the calls to free_pi_state() out of the hb->lock() sections.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@...ibm.com>

> >  	struct task_struct *task;
> > -	spinlock_t *lock_ptr;
> > +	raw_spinlock_t *lock_ptr;
> 
>  How is this related to the changelog ?

Read the reply to himself (V2) ;-)

-- Steve


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