On Fri, 11 May 2007 17:53:35 -0700
Andrew Morton <[email protected]> wrote:
> And indeed that's buggy - the non-debug version of spin_lock_mutex() is not
> irq-safe.
>
> I'd say that's pretty dumb of the mutex interface, really. Doing a
> mutex_trylock() should be OK from all contexts.
We can fix this in a low-impact fashion by making mutex_trylock() do a
spin_trylock() on mutex->wait_lock, no?
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