Re: Question regarding mutex locking

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Larry Finger wrote:
If a particular routine needs to lock a mutex, but it may be entered with that mutex already locked,
would the following code be SMP safe?

hold_lock = mutex_trylock()

The common way to deal with this is first to restructure your function into two. One always acquires the lock, and the other (often written with a "__" prefix) never acquires it. The never-acquire code does the actual work, and the always-acquire function calls it.

You then refactor the callers so that you don't have any code paths on which you can't predict whether or not the lock will be held.

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