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Re: [PATCH 2/3] rtmutex: deboost priority conditionally when rt-mutex unlock

From Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 2/3] rtmutex: deboost priority conditionally when rt-mutex unlock
Date 2017-04-13 18:30 +0200
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On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 12:09:25PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Apr 2017 16:39:52 +0200
> Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 10:02:53PM +0800, Alex Shi wrote:
> > >  	/*
> > > +	 * 'current' release this lock, so 'current' should be a higher prio
> > > +	 * task than the next top waiter, unless the current prio was gotten
> > > +	 * from this top waiter, iff so, we need to deboost 'current' after
> > > +	 * the lock release.
> > > +	 */
> > > +	if (current->prio == waiter->prio)
> > > +		deboost = true;  
> > 
> > This is wrong.
> 
> The comment is, especially that "iff". What if current and waiter
> happen to have the same priority? Then it too doesn't need to be
> deboosted.

The wrongness is in comparing prio and thinking it means anything.

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[PATCH 2/3] rtmutex: deboost priority conditionally when rt-mutex unlock Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org> - 2017-04-13 16:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 2/3] rtmutex: deboost priority conditionally when  rt-mutex unlock Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> - 2017-04-13 16:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 2/3] rtmutex: deboost priority conditionally when  rt-mutex unlock Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-04-13 16:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 2/3] rtmutex: deboost priority conditionally when  rt-mutex unlock Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> - 2017-04-13 18:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 2/3] rtmutex: deboost priority conditionally when  rt-mutex unlock Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-04-13 18:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 2/3] rtmutex: deboost priority conditionally when  rt-mutex unlock Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> - 2017-04-13 18:50 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 2/3] rtmutex: deboost priority conditionally when  rt-mutex unlock Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-04-13 19:00 +0200

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