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Plain semaphores will still use the proper <br />> > arch-semaphore calls.<br />> <br />> I think we shouldn't introduce this one. It just encourages people to do<br />> really things.<br /> ^---("weird" ?)<br /><br />ok. I can keep it a separate patch - it's needed for -rt, and it's also <br />a good debugging tool to test-drive the mutex implementation. <br /><br />historically, i found 90% of the mutex.c bugs by stress-testing it from <br />userspace, but a crutial 10% did come from the DEBUG_MUTEX_FULL mode, <br />where almost all of the 7000+ semaphore users are switched over to <br />mutexes.<br /><br />but in terms of keeping the upstream kernel code base clean, i agree <br />with a clean and separate set of mutex APIs that are introduced into <br />subsystems gradually.<br /><br />> Everything else in the patchseries looks sensible to me.<br /><br />great!<br /><br /> Ingo<br />-<br />To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in<br />the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org<br />More majordomo info at <a href="http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html">http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html</a><br />Please read the FAQ at <a href="http://www.tux.org/lkml/">http://www.tux.org/lkml/</a><br /><br /></pre></td><td width="32" rowspan="2" class="c" valign="top"><img src="/images/icornerr.gif" width="32" height="32" alt="\" /></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="bottom"> 聽 </td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="bottom">聽</td><td class="c" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 0px"><img src="/images/bcornerl.gif" width="32" height="32" alt="\" /></td><td class="c">聽</td><td class="c" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 0px"><img src="/images/bcornerr.gif" width="32" height="32" alt="/" /></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" colspan="2"> 聽 </td><td class="lm">Last update: 2005-12-20 05:51 聽聽 [from the cache]<br />漏2003-2020 <a href="http://blog.jasper.es/"><span itemprop="editor">Jasper Spaans</span></a>|hosted at <a href="https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=9a8e99d24cf9">Digital Ocean</a> and my Meterkast|<a href="http://blog.jasper.es/categories.html#lkml-ref">Read the blog</a></td><td>聽</td></tr></table><script language="javascript" src="/js/styleswitcher.js" type="text/javascript"></script></body></html>