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

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 16:10 +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Maw, 2005-12-13 at 15:39 +0000, David Howells 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.
> 
> Only if you insist on replacing them immediately. If you submit a
> *small* patch which just adds the new mutexes then a series of small
> patches can gradually convert code where mutexes are better. 

this unfortunately is not very realistic in practice... 

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