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

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Mon Jul 12 2010 - 06:46:14 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxx>

> > 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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