On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 09:35:42AM +0100, Esben Nielsen wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Bill Huey wrote:
> I am not precisely sure what you mean by "false reporting".
>
> Handing off BKL is done in schedule() in sched.c. I.e. if B owns a normal
> mutex, A will give BKL to B when A calls schedule() in the down-operation
> of that mutex.
Task A holding BKL would have to drop BKL when it blocks against a mutex held
by task B in my example and therefore must hit schedule() before any pi boost
operation happens. I'll take another look at your code just to see if this is
clear.
bill
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