On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 13:05 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > Damn! The answer was right there in front of my eyes! Here's the cleanest > solution. I forgot about wait_on_bit_lock. I've converted all the locks > to use this instead. We probably need to get priority inheritence working > on this too someday, but for now it's better than wasting memory or > getting into deadlocks. >
I am still not clear on why this did not hit with earlier kernels + PREEMPT_DESKTOP. Were the bitlocks introduced recently? Or was another lock-break patch dropped? Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/