Re: [PATCH 1/12]: MUTEX: Implement mutexes

[James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>]

On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 10:42 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> It's easy enough to add a "might_sleep()" to the up(). Not strictly true, 
> but conceptually it would make sense to make up/down match in that sense. 
> We'd have to mark the (few) places that do down_trylock() + up() in 
> interrupt context with a special "up_in_interrupt()", but that would be ok 
> even from a documentation standpoint.

Actually, I don't think you want might_sleep(): there are a few cases
where we do an up() from under a spinlock, which will spuriously trigger
this.  I'd suggest WARN_ON(in_interrupt()) instead.

James


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