Re: [PATCH 1/19] MUTEX: Introduce simple mutex implementation

[Ingo Molnar]

* David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  (3) Some people want mutexes to be:
> 
>      (a) only releasable in the same context as they were taken
> 
>      (b) not accessible in interrupt context, or that (a) applies here also
> 
>      (c) not initialisable to the locked state
> 
>      But this means that the current usages all have to be carefully audited,
>      and sometimes that unobvious.

(a) and (c) is not a big problem, are they are essentially the 
constraints of -rt mutexes. As long as there's good debugging code, it's 
very much doable. We dont want to change semantics _yet again_, later 
down the line.

	Ingo
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