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locking/mutex: Add comment to __mutex_owner() to deter usage

Attempt to deter usage, this is not a public interface. It is entirely
possible to implement a conformant mutex without having this owner
field (in fact, we used to have that).

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Peter Zijlstra пре 7 година
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      include/linux/mutex.h

+ 5 - 0
include/linux/mutex.h

@@ -66,6 +66,11 @@ struct mutex {
 #endif
 #endif
 };
 };
 
 
+/*
+ * Internal helper function; C doesn't allow us to hide it :/
+ *
+ * DO NOT USE (outside of mutex code).
+ */
 static inline struct task_struct *__mutex_owner(struct mutex *lock)
 static inline struct task_struct *__mutex_owner(struct mutex *lock)
 {
 {
 	return (struct task_struct *)(atomic_long_read(&lock->owner) & ~0x07);
 	return (struct task_struct *)(atomic_long_read(&lock->owner) & ~0x07);