Acquiring a mtx after an sx lock

[Julian Elischer]

Ed Maste wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 12:02:56PM -0400, Ryan Stone wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Max Laier <max at love2party.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On Monday 18 August 2008 17:14:01 Ryan Stone wrote:
>>>> Are there any problems acquiring a sleep mutex after acquiring an sx
>>> lock?
>>>> man 9 locking says that you can't, but doesn't provide any reasons.
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> Where does it say so?  The interaction table clearly shows: [...]
> 
> Ahh, it seems ups' commit of rmlocks changed the "You have: sx_lock,
> You want: Slp_mtx" case from no to ok (in r173444).


hmmm
you know, I'm not sure what the correct answer is.. I thought rw locks 
were mutex compatible but sx locks were NOT..

> 
> -Ed
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