Re: [PATCH] pstore: Revert pmsg_lock back to a normal mutex

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Wed Mar 08 2023 - 15:41:24 EST


On Wed, 8 Mar 2023 12:04:23 -0800
John Stultz <jstultz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm interested in continuing to see if we can further tweak it, but
> I've got some other work I need to focus on, so I think I'm going to
> advocate for the revert in the short-term and look at finer grained
> locking (along with rtmutex to address the priority inversion issue)
> in the longer term.

Yeah, I would suggest the same. I would still like to see what the
difference is. Because I believe this will also be an issue for PREEMPT_RT.

-- Steve