msleep() on recursivly locked mutexes
John Baldwin
jhb at freebsd.org
Fri Apr 27 19:03:05 UTC 2007
On Thursday 26 April 2007 03:36:33 pm Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> Are there any comments on integrating this functionality into msleep(), and
> adding mtx_drop_recurse() and mtx_pickup_recurse() to the FreeBSD kernel?
Nope. Fix the code to not recurse instead, or to know it has a recursed mutex
and make sure it doesn't call mtx_sleep() or cv_wait() with a recursed lock.
It's not that hard to do. The rest of the kernel manages that restriction
fine.
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John Baldwin
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