Re: [PATCH] apm-emulation: Fix mutex race condition

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On Tuesday, May 03, 2011, Paul Parsons wrote:
> Hi Rafael,
> 
> --- On Tue, 3/5/11, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hmm.  I'd rather use mutex_trylock() and call try_to_freeze() if
> > that fails.
> > 
> > Is there anything wrong with this approach?
> 
> Well, mutex_trylock() doesn't wait if it cannot acquire the mutex, so won't the calling process enter a busy loop if it fails?

Right.  So I don't see how we could do better that in your patch at the
moment.

I'm not sure if Jiri is going to take your patch.  I will if he doesn't.

Thanks,
Rafael
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