Re: [patch 2.6.13-rc6] i386: semaphore ownership tracking

From: Lee Revell
Date: Sat Aug 20 2005 - 14:02:06 EST


On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 03:07 -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 at 20:02:27 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > This patch enables tracking semaphore ownership.
> >
> > Why? I can't think of any bug in recent years which needed this..
>
> It might be useful in new driver development. OTOH it is really ugly
> even if it's a small patch.

How is it different from the ownership tracking used for PI in the -rt
kernel?

Lee

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