Usable for lock-breaks and such. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra --- include/linux/mutex.h | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/mutex.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/mutex.h +++ linux-2.6/include/linux/mutex.h @@ -118,6 +118,11 @@ static inline int mutex_is_locked(struct return atomic_read(&lock->count) != 1; } +static inline int mutex_is_contended(struct mutex *lock) +{ + return atomic_read(&lock->count) < 0; +} + /* * See kernel/mutex.c for detailed documentation of these APIs. * Also see Documentation/mutex-design.txt. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/