Apologies, mangled a rebase and this patch had bits of 4/4 in it. Corrected below: >From f40b8e684df6ed2b1ba9167cad3922ab43f4a717 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Darren Hart <dvhltc@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 17:07:10 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 3/4 V2] futex: free_pi_state outside of hb->lock sections free_pi_state() calls kfree() and might sleep. To prepare for raw hb->locks, get the calls to free_pi_state() out of the hb->lock() sections. Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx> --- kernel/futex.c | 8 +++++--- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c index a6cec32..2cd58a2 100644 --- a/kernel/futex.c +++ b/kernel/futex.c @@ -1339,7 +1339,6 @@ retry_private: } else if (ret) { /* -EDEADLK */ this->pi_state = NULL; - free_pi_state(pi_state); goto out_unlock; } } @@ -1483,16 +1482,19 @@ retry: */ static void unqueue_me_pi(struct futex_q *q) { + struct futex_pi_state *pi_state = NULL; + WARN_ON(plist_node_empty(&q->list)); plist_del(&q->list, &q->list.plist); BUG_ON(!q->pi_state); - free_pi_state(q->pi_state); + pi_state = q->pi_state; q->pi_state = NULL; spin_unlock(q->lock_ptr); - drop_futex_key_refs(&q->key); + + free_pi_state(pi_state); } /* -- 1.7.0.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html