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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, tglx@linutronix.de,
	rostedt@goodmis.org, linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bill.huey@gmail.com,
	kevin@hilman.org, cminyard@mvista.com, dsingleton@mvista.com,
	dwalker@mvista.com, npiggin@suse.de, dsaxena@plexity.net,
	ak@suse.de, acme@redhat.com, gregkh@suse.de,
	sdietrich@novell.com, pmorreale@novell.com, mkohari@novell.com
Subject: Re: [(RT RFC) PATCH v2 3/9] rearrange rt_spin_lock sleep
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:54:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080225215454.GF2659@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080225160053.11268.60719.stgit@novell1.haskins.net>

Hi!

> @@ -720,7 +728,8 @@ rt_spin_lock_slowlock(struct rt_mutex *lock)
>  	 * saved_state accordingly. If we did not get a real wakeup
>  	 * then we return with the saved state.
>  	 */
> -	saved_state = xchg(&current->state, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
> +	saved_state = current->state;
> +	smp_mb();
>  
>  	for (;;) {
>  		unsigned long saved_flags;

Please document what the barrier is good for.

Plus, you are replacing atomic operation with nonatomic; is that ok?

									Pavel
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-25 21:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-25 16:00 [(RT RFC) PATCH v2 0/9] adaptive real-time locks Gregory Haskins
2008-02-25 16:00 ` [(RT RFC) PATCH v2 1/9] allow rt-mutex lock-stealing to include lateral priority Gregory Haskins
2008-03-03 15:13   ` Steven Rostedt
2008-03-03 15:41     ` [(RT RFC) PATCH v2 1/9] allow rt-mutex lock-stealing to includelateral priority Gregory Haskins
2008-03-03 15:55       ` Steven Rostedt
2008-03-03 15:55         ` [(RT RFC) PATCH v2 1/9] allow rt-mutex lock-stealing toincludelateral priority Gregory Haskins
2008-02-25 16:00 ` [(RT RFC) PATCH v2 2/9] sysctl for runtime-control of lateral mutex stealing Gregory Haskins
2008-02-25 21:53   ` Pavel Machek
2008-02-25 22:57     ` Sven-Thorsten Dietrich
2008-02-25 23:00       ` Pavel Machek
2008-02-25 23:40         ` Sven-Thorsten Dietrich
2008-02-26  1:15       ` Gregory Haskins
2008-02-25 16:00 ` [(RT RFC) PATCH v2 3/9] rearrange rt_spin_lock sleep Gregory Haskins
2008-02-25 21:54   ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2008-02-26  0:45     ` Gregory Haskins
2008-02-25 16:00 ` [(RT RFC) PATCH v2 4/9] optimize rt lock wakeup Gregory Haskins
2008-03-03 15:37   ` Steven Rostedt
2008-03-03 15:41     ` Gregory Haskins
2008-02-25 16:01 ` [(RT RFC) PATCH v2 5/9] adaptive real-time lock support Gregory Haskins
2008-02-25 22:03   ` Pavel Machek
2008-02-26  0:48     ` Gregory Haskins
2008-02-26 15:03     ` Gregory Haskins
2008-02-26 18:06       ` Pavel Machek
2008-02-26 18:01         ` Gregory Haskins
2008-02-25 16:01 ` [(RT RFC) PATCH v2 6/9] add a loop counter based timeout mechanism Gregory Haskins
2008-02-25 22:06   ` Pavel Machek
2008-02-25 22:19     ` Greg KH
2008-02-25 22:21       ` Pavel Machek
2008-02-25 22:39     ` Sven-Thorsten Dietrich
2008-02-26 15:09     ` Gregory Haskins
2008-02-25 16:01 ` [(RT RFC) PATCH v2 7/9] adaptive mutexes Gregory Haskins
2008-02-25 22:09   ` Pavel Machek
2008-02-26  0:52     ` Gregory Haskins
2008-02-25 16:01 ` [(RT RFC) PATCH v2 8/9] adjust pi_lock usage in wakeup Gregory Haskins
2008-02-25 22:10   ` Pavel Machek
2008-02-25 16:01 ` [(RT RFC) PATCH v2 9/9] remove the extra call to try_to_take_lock Gregory Haskins

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