Re: [Linaro-mm-sig] [PATCH v2 2/3] mutex: add support for reservation style locks, v2

On Thu, 2013-02-28 at 11:25 +0100, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:

+mutex_reserve_lock_slow and mutex_reserve_lock_intr_slow:

• Similar to mutex_reserve_lock, except it won't backoff with

-EAGAIN.

• This is useful when mutex_reserve_lock failed with -EAGAIN, and you
• unreserved all reservation_locks so no deadlock can occur.

I don't particularly like these function names, with lock implementations the _slow post-fix is typically used for slow path implementations, not API type interfaces.