On 04/08/2015 02:50 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > Don't even try to get this working. Taking the lock in idle/interrupt > context is just plain wrong. > Thanks for the comments. Could you please confirm you meant rt_mutex as it can go to sleep. > The proper solution is to get rid of the locking requirement and that > needs some thought on the timer wheel code. > Yes, I agree fixing the problem in the timer code is the proper solution. BTW, once the code is fixed, I think we should add WARN_ON(in_irq()); to the function spin_do_trylock() to prevent any invalid future usage. Thanks, Mak. > Thanks, > > tglx > -- 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