On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 04:52:44PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > Poking at lock internals is not cool. Since I'm going to change the > implementation this will break, take it out.
So something like the below would serve as a replacement for your previous hacks. Is this API something acceptable to people? Ingo, Thomas? --- include/linux/mutex.h | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/linux/mutex.h b/include/linux/mutex.h index 4d3bccabbea5..afcff2c85957 100644 --- a/include/linux/mutex.h +++ b/include/linux/mutex.h @@ -189,4 +189,29 @@ extern void mutex_unlock(struct mutex *lock); extern int atomic_dec_and_mutex_lock(atomic_t *cnt, struct mutex *lock); +enum mutex_trylock_recursive_enum { + mutex_trylock_failed = 0, + mutex_trylock_success = 1, + mutex_trylock_recursive, +}; + +/** + * mutex_trylock_recursive - trylock variant that allows recursive locking + * @lock: mutex to be locked + * + * + * Returns: + * mutex_trylock_failed - trylock failed, + * mutex_trylock_success - lock acquired, + * mutex_trylock_recursive - we already owned the lock. + */ +static inline enum mutex_trylock_recursive_enum +mutex_trylock_recursive(struct mutex *lock) +{ + if (unlikely(__mutex_owner(lock) == current)) + return mutex_trylock_recursive; + + return mutex_trylock(lock); +} + #endif /* __LINUX_MUTEX_H */