From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Esben Nielsen <nielsen.esben@googlemail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: rtmutex's wait_lock in 2.6.18-rt7
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:46:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1161683163.22373.68.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0610231150500.12557@frodo.shire>
On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 11:55 +0200, Esben Nielsen wrote:
> Hi,
> I see that in 2.6.18-rt7 the rtmutex's wait_lock is sudden interrupt
> disabling. I don't see the need as no (hard) interrupt-handlers should be
> touching any mutex.
It does not touch mutexes, but the dynamic priority adjustment of the
hrtimer softirq needs it.
The correct solution will be moving the timer callback into the process
context, as it will be woken up anyway, but that's more complex to do
than it looks in the first place.
tglx
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-24 9:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-23 9:55 Esben Nielsen
2006-10-24 9:46 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2006-10-24 12:19 ` Esben Nielsen
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