On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 09:45 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > o mutex_lock(): Critical sections need not guarantee > forward progress, as general blocking is permitted. This isn't quite right. mutex critical sections must guarantee eventual forward progress against the class of other potential acquirers of the mutex otherwise the system will become either deadlocked or livelocked. James -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
