Re: [PATCH v2 03/13] ANDROID: binder: add support for RT prio inheritance.

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Aug 31 2017 - 08:22:07 EST


On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 02:00:54PM +0200, Martijn Coenen wrote:
> Appreciate if you could take a look! In particular I'm curious why
> this approach is considered "dodgy", or "engineered sideways" as
> Thomas pointed out earlier.

The fact that you could not reuse rt_mutex makes me very nervous. Other
than that I cannot say anything because I've not actually looked at any
of the code yet.