Re: [PATCH v2] pstore: Revert pmsg_lock back to a normal mutex

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On Mon, 6 Mar 2023 10:28:44 -0500 Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> On Mon, 6 Mar 2023 09:03:23 +0800 Hillf Danton <hdanton@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > PS what sense made by spinning on owner until need_resched() with preempt
> > disabled in the non-rt context?
> 
> Not sure what the question you have here is? If need_resched() is set, we
> want to schedule out.

Given the critical section under mutex could be preempted, what is hard to
understand is the wakeup of a ten-minute sleeper could not preempt a nice-10
mutex spinner for instance.




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