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Message-ID: <1337102732.14207.336.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 13:25:32 -0400
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
RT <linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Clark Williams <williams@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH RT] rwsem_rt: Another (more sane) approach to mulit
reader rt locks
On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 11:42 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 17:06 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 10:03 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > >
> > > where readers may nest (the same task may grab the same rwsem for
> > > read multiple times), but only one task may hold the rwsem at any
> > > given
> > > time (for read or write).
> >
> > Humm, that sounds iffy, rwsem isn't a recursive read lock only rwlock_t
> > is.
>
> In that case, current -rt is broken. As it has it being a recursive lock
> (without my patch).
>
Why wouldn't it be recursive. If two different tasks are allowed to grab
a read lock at the same time, why can't the same task grab a read lock
twice? As long as it releases it the same amount of times.
Now you can't grab a read lock if you have the write lock.
-- Steve
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