Re: [patch V3 7/7] rtmutex: Avoid pointless requeueing in the deadlock detection chain walk
From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Tue Jun 10 2014 - 13:51:31 EST
On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 19:43:16 +0200 (CEST)
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jun 2014, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 09:57:25 -0500
> > "Brad Mouring" <bmouring@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > > + /* Store whether owner is blocked itself and drop locks */
> > > > + next_lock = task_blocked_on(task);
> > > task_blocked_on(task) is not clear to me, the recipient of the
> > > return is the only clue that hints at what the function does.
> >
> > Well, this is more than confusing, it's the only user, all other users
> > are task_blocked_on_lock(), and this causes the code not to compile.
>
> Grr, yes.
Luckily you are not posting this to that grumpy IRQ maintainer. He'd
shoot some frozen sharks your way if you sent him patches like this ;-)
-- Steve
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