On pe, 2017-06-09 at 12:03 +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Having resolved whether or not we would deadlock upon a call to
> mutex_lock(>struct_mutex), we can then spin for the contended
> struct_mutex if we are not the owner. We cannot afford to simply block
> and wait for the mutex, as the owner
Having resolved whether or not we would deadlock upon a call to
mutex_lock(>struct_mutex), we can then spin for the contended
struct_mutex if we are not the owner. We cannot afford to simply block
and wait for the mutex, as the owner may itself be waiting for the
allocator -- i.e. a cyclic
