On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 13:42 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > cpu_chill_on_lock(). I think what you were hinting at is: spin_lock(&lock); spin_unlock(&lock); which is the rt_mutex implementation of spin_unlock_wait(). No new function needed for that. Trouble is that you cannot use inode->i_lock as explained.. -- 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