linux-kernel - Re: [ANNOUNCE] 3.2.9-rt17

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Message-ID: <1331236139.11248.407.camel@twins>
Date:	Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:48:59 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-rt-users <linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] 3.2.9-rt17

On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 13:42 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> cpu_chill_on_lock().

I think what you were hinting at is:

  spin_lock(&lock);
  spin_unlock(&lock);

which is the rt_mutex implementation of spin_unlock_wait(). No new
function needed for that.

Trouble is that you cannot use inode->i_lock as explained..
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