On Wed, 15 Dec 2010, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
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> +	if (waiter || rt_mutex_has_waiters(lock)) {
> +		unsigned long flags;
> +		struct rt_mutex_waiter *top;
> +
> +		raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&task->pi_lock, flags);
> +
> +		/* remove the queued waiter. */
> +		if (waiter) {
> +			plist_del(&waiter->list_entry, &lock->wait_list);
> +			task->pi_blocked_on = NULL;
> +		}
> +
> +		/*
> +		 * We have to enqueue the top waiter(if have) into
> +		 * task->pi_waiters list and would get boost from it.

No, we don't get boosted from it. We just have to enqueue it into
pi_waiters list. There is no boosting happening at this point. Please
be very careful with the comments in this code.

Otherwise this looks really interesting. Still this wants to be ported
to -rt and stress tested there.

Thanks,

	tglx
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