Re: [ANNOUNCE] 3.2.9-rt17

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Mar 08 2012 - 14:49:19 EST


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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