Am Dienstag, 9. Januar 2007 10:02 schrieb Peter Zijlstra:
> On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 13:28 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > Please use mutexes where possible. Semaphores should only be used when
> > their counting feature is employed. And, arguably, in situations where a
> > lock is locked and unlocked from different threads, because this presently
> > triggers mutex debugging warnings, although we should find a way of fixing
> > this in the mutex code.
>
> Its a fundamental property of a mutex, not a shortcoming. A mutex has an
> owner, the one that takes and releases the resource. This allows things
> such as Priority Inheritance to boost owners.
>
> 'fixing' this takes away much of what a mutex is.
>
> That said, it seems some folks really want this to happen, weird as it
> may be. I'm not sure if all these cases are because of wrong designs. A
> possible extension to the mutex interface might be something like this:
>
> mutex_pass_owner(struct task_struct *task);
>
> which would be an atomic unlock/lock pair where the current task
> releases the resource and the indicated task gains it. However it must
> be understood that from the POV of 'current' this should be treated as
> an unlock action.
This won't help if I want to release from an interrupt handler or tasklet.
Regards
Oliver
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