From 1ee41680572971e34d90d5f584daf33195ec6dcb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefan Richter Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:13:43 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: kernel-locking: mutex_trylock cannot be used in interrupt context Chapter 6 is right about mutex_trylock, but chapter 10 wasn't. This error was introduced during semaphore-to-mutex conversion of the Unreliable guide. :-) If user context which performs mutex_lock() or mutex_trylock() is preempted by interrupt context which performs mutex_trylock() on the same mutex instance, a deadlock occurs. This is because these functions do not disable local IRQs when they operate on mutex->wait_lock. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter Acked-by: Rusty Russell Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed