From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Darren Hart <darren@dvhart.com>,
Lai Jiangshan <eag0628@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] rtmutex: Fix comment about why new_owner can be NULL in wake_futex_pi()
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:09:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110111110914.GD5253@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1294719469.26623.246.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
>
> Ingo,
>
> While porting Lai Jiangshan's rt-pi patch to the -rt kernel, I found
> that the comment about why rt_mutex_next_owner() can return NULL is
> incorrect. This caused Lai to remove the following if condition, which
> caused a bit of headache in debugging why his patch was causing a crash.
>
> Please pull the latest tip/futex tree, which can be found at:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace.git
> tip/futex
>
>
> Steven Rostedt (1):
> rtmutex: Fix comment about why new_owner can be NULL in wake_futex_pi()
>
> ----
> kernel/futex.c | 7 +++----
> 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Pulled into tip:core/urgent, thanks Steve!
Ingo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-11 11:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-11 4:17 Steven Rostedt
2011-01-11 11:09 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20110111110914.GD5253@elte.hu \
--to=mingo@elte.hu \
--cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
--cc=darren@dvhart.com \
--cc=eag0628@gmail.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=rostedt@goodmis.org \
--cc=tglx@linutronix.de \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox
all inboxes | Powered by JetHome®