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Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 18:43:06 +0200
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To: Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...onical.com>,
linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, daniel.vetter@...ll.ch, x86@...nel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
linaro-mm-sig@...ts.linaro.org, robclark@...il.com,
tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...e.hu, linux-media@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] mutex: add support for reservation style locks,
v2
On Thu, 2013-04-04 at 15:31 +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> Another big reason for having a start/end marker like you've describe
> is
> lockdep support.
Yeah, I saw how you did that.. but there's other ways of making it work
too, you could for instance create a new validation state for this type
of lock.
That said, I didn't consider lockdep too much, I first want the regular
semantics clear.
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