Jiri Slaby wrote:

Mainly because you can sleep inside locked mutex and because spinlock shouldn't
be used for too many lines of code (busy waiting etc.). I think ldd3 will be
more descriptive than me here :).

Ok, I'll look into it.

Andrew, do you want us to respin the patch, or would you be willing to let us
make the change in a follow-up patch?

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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale