Re: [PATCH -mm] update comment in rtmutex.c and friends

[Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de>]

Hi Steven,

On Sunday, 14. May 2006 01:34, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> @@ -46,9 +46,15 @@
>   *
>   * The fast atomic compare exchange based acquire and release is only
>   * possible when bit 0 and 1 of lock->owner are 0.
> + *
> + * (*) There's a small time where the owner can be NULL and the
> + * "lock has waiters" bit is set.  This can happen when grabbing the lock.
> + * To prevent a cmpxchg of the owner releasing the lock, we need to set this
> + * bit before looking at the lock, hence the reason this is a transitional
> + * state.
>   */
> 
> -static void
> +static vid

Typo here.

>  rt_mutex_set_owner(struct rt_mutex *lock, struct task_struct *owner,
>  		   unsigned long mask)
>  {
> @@ -365,6 +371,7 @@ static int try_to_take_rt_mutex(struct r

PS: Compile testing ANY changes to *.c and *.h files
	will catch most obvious brown paper bag typos for you :-)

Regards

Ingo Oeser