Re: [RFC][PATCH RT 0/3] RT: Fix trylock deadlock without msleep() hack

[Steven Rostedt]

On Sat, 5 Sep 2015 14:04:57 +0200
Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

 
> So why not do:
> 
> 	lock(B);
> 	if (!trylock(A)) {
> 		unlock(B);
> 		lock(A);
> 		lock(B);
> 	}
> 
> ?
> 
> Or, if this can be done, why didn't we do:
> 
> 	lock(A);
> 	lock(B);
> 
> to begin with?
> 
> i.e. I'm not sure the problem is properly specified.

Yeah, this is actually the solution I came up with before. I misread
what Thomas wrote. His is slightly different.

-- Steve
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