Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 May 2013 10:29:48 +0200 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] mutex: add support for wound/wait style locks, v3 |
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On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 06:49:04PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote: > - _slow functions can check whether all acquire locks have been > released and whether the caller is indeed blocking on the contending > lock. Not doing so could either result in needless spinning instead of > blocking (when blocking on the wrong lock) or in deadlocks (when not > dropping all acquired).
We could add ww_mutex_assert_context_empty() or somesuch so that paranoid people have a means of expressing themselves :-)
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