Re: [patch V3 7/7] rtmutex: Avoid pointless requeueing in the deadlock detection chain walk

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Tue Jun 10 2014 - 13:43:23 EST


On Tue, 10 Jun 2014, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 09:57:25 -0500
> "Brad Mouring" <bmouring@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > > + /* Store whether owner is blocked itself and drop locks */
> > > + next_lock = task_blocked_on(task);
> > task_blocked_on(task) is not clear to me, the recipient of the
> > return is the only clue that hints at what the function does.
>
> Well, this is more than confusing, it's the only user, all other users
> are task_blocked_on_lock(), and this causes the code not to compile.

Grr, yes.
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