diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index b766d28..64c3811 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -1556,10 +1556,10 @@
 
 	/*
 	 * We are here either because we stole the rtmutex from the
-	 * pending owner or we are the pending owner which failed to
-	 * get the rtmutex. We have to replace the pending owner TID
-	 * in the user space variable. This must be atomic as we have
-	 * to preserve the owner died bit here.
+	 * previous highest priority waiter or we are the highest priority
+	 * waiter but failed to get the rtmutex the first time.
+	 * We have to replace the newowner TID in the user space variable.
+	 * This must be atomic as we have to preserve the owner died bit here.
 	 *
 	 * Note: We write the user space value _before_ changing the pi_state
 	 * because we can fault here. Imagine swapped out pages or a fork
@@ -1608,8 +1608,8 @@
 
 	/*
 	 * To handle the page fault we need to drop the hash bucket
-	 * lock here. That gives the other task (either the pending
-	 * owner itself or the task which stole the rtmutex) the
+	 * lock here. That gives the other task (either the highest priority
+	 * waiter itself or the task which stole the rtmutex) the
 	 * chance to try the fixup of the pi_state. So once we are
 	 * back from handling the fault we need to check the pi_state
 	 * after reacquiring the hash bucket lock and before trying to
@@ -1685,18 +1685,20 @@
 		/*
 		 * pi_state is incorrect, some other task did a lock steal and
 		 * we returned due to timeout or signal without taking the
-		 * rt_mutex. Too late. We can access the rt_mutex_owner without
-		 * locking, as the other task is now blocked on the hash bucket
-		 * lock. Fix the state up.
+		 * rt_mutex. Too late.
 		 */
+		raw_spin_lock(&q->pi_state->pi_mutex.wait_lock);
 		owner = rt_mutex_owner(&q->pi_state->pi_mutex);
+		if (!owner)
+			owner = rt_mutex_next_owner(&q->pi_state->pi_mutex);
+		raw_spin_unlock(&q->pi_state->pi_mutex.wait_lock);
 		ret = fixup_pi_state_owner(uaddr, q, owner);
 		goto out;
 	}
 
 	/*
 	 * Paranoia check. If we did not take the lock, then we should not be
-	 * the owner, nor the pending owner, of the rt_mutex.
+	 * the owner of the rt_mutex.
 	 */
 	if (rt_mutex_owner(&q->pi_state->pi_mutex) == current)
 		printk(KERN_ERR "fixup_owner: ret = %d pi-mutex: %p "
diff --git a/kernel/rtmutex-debug.c b/kernel/rtmutex-debug.c
index ddabb54..3c7cbc2 100644
--- a/kernel/rtmutex-debug.c
+++ b/kernel/rtmutex-debug.c
@@ -215,7 +215,6 @@
 	put_pid(waiter->deadlock_task_pid);
 	TRACE_WARN_ON(!plist_node_empty(&waiter->list_entry));
 	TRACE_WARN_ON(!plist_node_empty(&waiter->pi_list_entry));
-	TRACE_WARN_ON(waiter->task);
 	memset(waiter, 0x22, sizeof(*waiter));
 }
 
diff --git a/kernel/rtmutex.c b/kernel/rtmutex.c
index a960481..ab44911 100644
--- a/kernel/rtmutex.c
+++ b/kernel/rtmutex.c
@@ -20,41 +20,34 @@
 /*
  * lock->owner state tracking:
  *
- * lock->owner holds the task_struct pointer of the owner. Bit 0 and 1
- * are used to keep track of the "owner is pending" and "lock has
- * waiters" state.
+ * lock->owner holds the task_struct pointer of the owner. Bit 0
+ * is used to keep track of the "lock has waiters" state.
  *
- * owner	bit1	bit0
- * NULL		0	0	lock is free (fast acquire possible)
- * NULL		0	1	invalid state
- * NULL		1	0	Transitional State*
- * NULL		1	1	invalid state
- * taskpointer	0	0	lock is held (fast release possible)
- * taskpointer	0	1	task is pending owner
- * taskpointer	1	0	lock is held and has waiters
- * taskpointer	1	1	task is pending owner and lock has more waiters
- *
- * Pending ownership is assigned to the top (highest priority)
- * waiter of the lock, when the lock is released. The thread is woken
- * up and can now take the lock. Until the lock is taken (bit 0
- * cleared) a competing higher priority thread can steal the lock
- * which puts the woken up thread back on the waiters list.
+ * owner	bit0
+ * NULL		0	lock is free (fast acquire possible)
+ * NULL		1	lock is free and has waiters and the top waiter
+ *				is going to take the lock*
+ * taskpointer	0	lock is held (fast release possible)
+ * taskpointer	1	lock is held and has waiters**
  *
  * The fast atomic compare exchange based acquire and release is only
- * possible when bit 0 and 1 of lock->owner are 0.
+ * possible when bit 0 of lock->owner is 0.
  *
- * (*) There's a small time where the owner can be NULL and the
- * "lock has waiters" bit is set.  This can happen when grabbing the lock.
- * To prevent a cmpxchg of the owner releasing the lock, we need to set this
- * bit before looking at the lock, hence the reason this is a transitional
- * state.
+ * (*) It also can be a transitional state when grabbing the lock
+ * with ->wait_lock is held. To prevent any fast path cmpxchg to the lock,
+ * we need to set the bit0 before looking at the lock, and the owner may be
+ * NULL in this small time, hence this can be a transitional state.
+ *
+ * (**) There is a small time when bit 0 is set but there are no
+ * waiters. This can happen when grabbing the lock in the slow path.
+ * To prevent a cmpxchg of the owner releasing the lock, we need to
+ * set this bit before looking at the lock.
  */
 
 static void
-rt_mutex_set_owner(struct rt_mutex *lock, struct task_struct *owner,
-		   unsigned long mask)
+rt_mutex_set_owner(struct rt_mutex *lock, struct task_struct *owner)
 {
-	unsigned long val = (unsigned long)owner | mask;
+	unsigned long val = (unsigned long)owner;
 
 	if (rt_mutex_has_waiters(lock))
 		val |= RT_MUTEX_HAS_WAITERS;
@@ -203,15 +196,14 @@
 	 * reached or the state of the chain has changed while we
 	 * dropped the locks.
 	 */
-	if (!waiter || !waiter->task)
+	if (!waiter)
 		goto out_unlock_pi;
 
 	/*
 	 * Check the orig_waiter state. After we dropped the locks,
-	 * the previous owner of the lock might have released the lock
-	 * and made us the pending owner:
+	 * the previous owner of the lock might have released the lock.
 	 */
-	if (orig_waiter && !orig_waiter->task)
+	if (orig_waiter && !rt_mutex_owner(orig_lock))
 		goto out_unlock_pi;
 
 	/*
@@ -254,6 +246,17 @@
 
 	/* Release the task */
 	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&task->pi_lock, flags);
+	if (!rt_mutex_owner(lock)) {
+		/*
+		 * If the requeue above changed the top waiter, then we need
+		 * to wake the new top waiter up to try to get the lock.
+		 */
+
+		if (top_waiter != rt_mutex_top_waiter(lock))
+			wake_up_process(rt_mutex_top_waiter(lock)->task);
+		raw_spin_unlock(&lock->wait_lock);
+		goto out_put_task;
+	}
 	put_task_struct(task);
 
 	/* Grab the next task */
@@ -296,78 +299,16 @@
 }
 
 /*
- * Optimization: check if we can steal the lock from the
- * assigned pending owner [which might not have taken the
- * lock yet]:
- */
-static inline int try_to_steal_lock(struct rt_mutex *lock,
-				    struct task_struct *task)
-{
-	struct task_struct *pendowner = rt_mutex_owner(lock);
-	struct rt_mutex_waiter *next;
-	unsigned long flags;
-
-	if (!rt_mutex_owner_pending(lock))
-		return 0;
-
-	if (pendowner == task)
-		return 1;
-
-	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&pendowner->pi_lock, flags);
-	if (task->prio >= pendowner->prio) {
-		raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pendowner->pi_lock, flags);
-		return 0;
-	}
-
-	/*
-	 * Check if a waiter is enqueued on the pending owners
-	 * pi_waiters list. Remove it and readjust pending owners
-	 * priority.
-	 */
-	if (likely(!rt_mutex_has_waiters(lock))) {
-		raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pendowner->pi_lock, flags);
-		return 1;
-	}
-
-	/* No chain handling, pending owner is not blocked on anything: */
-	next = rt_mutex_top_waiter(lock);
-	plist_del(&next->pi_list_entry, &pendowner->pi_waiters);
-	__rt_mutex_adjust_prio(pendowner);
-	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pendowner->pi_lock, flags);
-
-	/*
-	 * We are going to steal the lock and a waiter was
-	 * enqueued on the pending owners pi_waiters queue. So
-	 * we have to enqueue this waiter into
-	 * task->pi_waiters list. This covers the case,
-	 * where task is boosted because it holds another
-	 * lock and gets unboosted because the booster is
-	 * interrupted, so we would delay a waiter with higher
-	 * priority as task->normal_prio.
-	 *
-	 * Note: in the rare case of a SCHED_OTHER task changing
-	 * its priority and thus stealing the lock, next->task
-	 * might be task:
-	 */
-	if (likely(next->task != task)) {
-		raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&task->pi_lock, flags);
-		plist_add(&next->pi_list_entry, &task->pi_waiters);
-		__rt_mutex_adjust_prio(task);
-		raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&task->pi_lock, flags);
-	}
-	return 1;
-}
-
-/*
  * Try to take an rt-mutex
  *
- * This fails
- * - when the lock has a real owner
- * - when a different pending owner exists and has higher priority than current
- *
  * Must be called with lock->wait_lock held.
+ *
+ * @lock:   the lock to be acquired.
+ * @task:   the task which wants to acquire the lock
+ * @waiter: the waiter that is queued to the lock's wait list. (could be NULL)
  */
-static int try_to_take_rt_mutex(struct rt_mutex *lock)
+static int try_to_take_rt_mutex(struct rt_mutex *lock, struct task_struct *task,
+		struct rt_mutex_waiter *waiter)
 {
 	/*
 	 * We have to be careful here if the atomic speedups are
@@ -390,15 +331,52 @@
 	 */
 	mark_rt_mutex_waiters(lock);
 
-	if (rt_mutex_owner(lock) && !try_to_steal_lock(lock, current))
+	if (rt_mutex_owner(lock))
 		return 0;
 
+	/*
+	 * It will get the lock because of one of these conditions:
+	 * 1) there is no waiter
+	 * 2) higher priority than waiters
+	 * 3) it is top waiter
+	 */
+	if (rt_mutex_has_waiters(lock)) {
+		if (task->prio >= rt_mutex_top_waiter(lock)->list_entry.prio) {
+			if (!waiter || waiter != rt_mutex_top_waiter(lock))
+				return 0;
+		}
+	}
+
+	if (waiter || rt_mutex_has_waiters(lock)) {
+		unsigned long flags;
+		struct rt_mutex_waiter *top;
+
+		raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&task->pi_lock, flags);
+
+		/* remove the queued waiter. */
+		if (waiter) {
+			plist_del(&waiter->list_entry, &lock->wait_list);
+			task->pi_blocked_on = NULL;
+		}
+
+		/*
+		 * We have to enqueue the top waiter(if it exists) into
+		 * task->pi_waiters list.
+		 */
+		if (rt_mutex_has_waiters(lock)) {
+			top = rt_mutex_top_waiter(lock);
+			top->pi_list_entry.prio = top->list_entry.prio;
+			plist_add(&top->pi_list_entry, &task->pi_waiters);
+		}
+		raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&task->pi_lock, flags);
+	}
+
 	/* We got the lock. */
 	debug_rt_mutex_lock(lock);
 
-	rt_mutex_set_owner(lock, current, 0);
+	rt_mutex_set_owner(lock, task);
 
-	rt_mutex_deadlock_account_lock(lock, current);
+	rt_mutex_deadlock_account_lock(lock, task);
 
 	return 1;
 }
@@ -436,6 +414,9 @@
 
 	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&task->pi_lock, flags);
 
+	if (!owner)
+		return 0;
+
 	if (waiter == rt_mutex_top_waiter(lock)) {
 		raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&owner->pi_lock, flags);
 		plist_del(&top_waiter->pi_list_entry, &owner->pi_waiters);
@@ -472,21 +453,18 @@
 /*
  * Wake up the next waiter on the lock.
  *
- * Remove the top waiter from the current tasks waiter list and from
- * the lock waiter list. Set it as pending owner. Then wake it up.
+ * Remove the top waiter from the current tasks waiter list and wake it up.
  *
  * Called with lock->wait_lock held.
  */
 static void wakeup_next_waiter(struct rt_mutex *lock)
 {
 	struct rt_mutex_waiter *waiter;
-	struct task_struct *pendowner;
 	unsigned long flags;
 
 	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&current->pi_lock, flags);
 
 	waiter = rt_mutex_top_waiter(lock);
-	plist_del(&waiter->list_entry, &lock->wait_list);
 
 	/*
 	 * Remove it from current->pi_waiters. We do not adjust a
@@ -495,43 +473,19 @@
 	 * lock->wait_lock.
 	 */
 	plist_del(&waiter->pi_list_entry, &current->pi_waiters);
-	pendowner = waiter->task;
-	waiter->task = NULL;
 
-	rt_mutex_set_owner(lock, pendowner, RT_MUTEX_OWNER_PENDING);
+	rt_mutex_set_owner(lock, NULL);
 
 	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&current->pi_lock, flags);
 
-	/*
-	 * Clear the pi_blocked_on variable and enqueue a possible
-	 * waiter into the pi_waiters list of the pending owner. This
-	 * prevents that in case the pending owner gets unboosted a
-	 * waiter with higher priority than pending-owner->normal_prio
-	 * is blocked on the unboosted (pending) owner.
-	 */
-	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&pendowner->pi_lock, flags);
-
-	WARN_ON(!pendowner->pi_blocked_on);
-	WARN_ON(pendowner->pi_blocked_on != waiter);
-	WARN_ON(pendowner->pi_blocked_on->lock != lock);
-
-	pendowner->pi_blocked_on = NULL;
-
-	if (rt_mutex_has_waiters(lock)) {
-		struct rt_mutex_waiter *next;
-
-		next = rt_mutex_top_waiter(lock);
-		plist_add(&next->pi_list_entry, &pendowner->pi_waiters);
-	}
-	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pendowner->pi_lock, flags);
-
-	wake_up_process(pendowner);
+	wake_up_process(waiter->task);
 }
 
 /*
- * Remove a waiter from a lock
+ * Remove a waiter from a lock and give up
  *
- * Must be called with lock->wait_lock held
+ * Must be called with lock->wait_lock held and
+ * have just failed to try_to_take_rt_mutex().
  */
 static void remove_waiter(struct rt_mutex *lock,
 			  struct rt_mutex_waiter *waiter)
@@ -543,11 +497,13 @@
 
 	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&current->pi_lock, flags);
 	plist_del(&waiter->list_entry, &lock->wait_list);
-	waiter->task = NULL;
 	current->pi_blocked_on = NULL;
 	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&current->pi_lock, flags);
 
-	if (first && owner != current) {
+	if (!owner)
+		return;
+
+	if (first) {
 
 		raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&owner->pi_lock, flags);
 
@@ -614,21 +570,19 @@
  * 			 or TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE)
  * @timeout:		 the pre-initialized and started timer, or NULL for none
  * @waiter:		 the pre-initialized rt_mutex_waiter
- * @detect_deadlock:	 passed to task_blocks_on_rt_mutex
  *
  * lock->wait_lock must be held by the caller.
  */
 static int __sched
 __rt_mutex_slowlock(struct rt_mutex *lock, int state,
 		    struct hrtimer_sleeper *timeout,
-		    struct rt_mutex_waiter *waiter,
-		    int detect_deadlock)
+		    struct rt_mutex_waiter *waiter)
 {
 	int ret = 0;
 
 	for (;;) {
 		/* Try to acquire the lock: */
-		if (try_to_take_rt_mutex(lock))
+		if (try_to_take_rt_mutex(lock, current, waiter))
 			break;
 
 		/*
@@ -645,39 +599,11 @@
 				break;
 		}
 
-		/*
-		 * waiter->task is NULL the first time we come here and
-		 * when we have been woken up by the previous owner
-		 * but the lock got stolen by a higher prio task.
-		 */
-		if (!waiter->task) {
-			ret = task_blocks_on_rt_mutex(lock, waiter, current,
-						      detect_deadlock);
-			/*
-			 * If we got woken up by the owner then start loop
-			 * all over without going into schedule to try
-			 * to get the lock now:
-			 */
-			if (unlikely(!waiter->task)) {
-				/*
-				 * Reset the return value. We might
-				 * have returned with -EDEADLK and the
-				 * owner released the lock while we
-				 * were walking the pi chain.
-				 */
-				ret = 0;
-				continue;
-			}
-			if (unlikely(ret))
-				break;
-		}
-
 		raw_spin_unlock(&lock->wait_lock);
 
 		debug_rt_mutex_print_deadlock(waiter);
 
-		if (waiter->task)
-			schedule_rt_mutex(lock);
+		schedule_rt_mutex(lock);
 
 		raw_spin_lock(&lock->wait_lock);
 		set_current_state(state);
@@ -698,12 +624,11 @@
 	int ret = 0;
 
 	debug_rt_mutex_init_waiter(&waiter);
-	waiter.task = NULL;
 
 	raw_spin_lock(&lock->wait_lock);
 
 	/* Try to acquire the lock again: */
-	if (try_to_take_rt_mutex(lock)) {
+	if (try_to_take_rt_mutex(lock, current, NULL)) {
 		raw_spin_unlock(&lock->wait_lock);
 		return 0;
 	}
@@ -717,12 +642,14 @@
 			timeout->task = NULL;
 	}
 
-	ret = __rt_mutex_slowlock(lock, state, timeout, &waiter,
-				  detect_deadlock);
+	ret = task_blocks_on_rt_mutex(lock, &waiter, current, detect_deadlock);
+
+	if (likely(!ret))
+		ret = __rt_mutex_slowlock(lock, state, timeout, &waiter);
 
 	set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
 
-	if (unlikely(waiter.task))
+	if (unlikely(ret))
 		remove_waiter(lock, &waiter);
 
 	/*
@@ -737,14 +664,6 @@
 	if (unlikely(timeout))
 		hrtimer_cancel(&timeout->timer);
 
-	/*
-	 * Readjust priority, when we did not get the lock. We might
-	 * have been the pending owner and boosted. Since we did not
-	 * take the lock, the PI boost has to go.
-	 */
-	if (unlikely(ret))
-		rt_mutex_adjust_prio(current);
-
 	debug_rt_mutex_free_waiter(&waiter);
 
 	return ret;
@@ -762,7 +681,7 @@
 
 	if (likely(rt_mutex_owner(lock) != current)) {
 
-		ret = try_to_take_rt_mutex(lock);
+		ret = try_to_take_rt_mutex(lock, current, NULL);
 		/*
 		 * try_to_take_rt_mutex() sets the lock waiters
 		 * bit unconditionally. Clean this up.
@@ -992,7 +911,7 @@
 {
 	__rt_mutex_init(lock, NULL);
 	debug_rt_mutex_proxy_lock(lock, proxy_owner);
-	rt_mutex_set_owner(lock, proxy_owner, 0);
+	rt_mutex_set_owner(lock, proxy_owner);
 	rt_mutex_deadlock_account_lock(lock, proxy_owner);
 }
 
@@ -1008,7 +927,7 @@
 			   struct task_struct *proxy_owner)
 {
 	debug_rt_mutex_proxy_unlock(lock);
-	rt_mutex_set_owner(lock, NULL, 0);
+	rt_mutex_set_owner(lock, NULL);
 	rt_mutex_deadlock_account_unlock(proxy_owner);
 }
 
@@ -1034,20 +953,14 @@
 
 	raw_spin_lock(&lock->wait_lock);
 
-	mark_rt_mutex_waiters(lock);
-
-	if (!rt_mutex_owner(lock) || try_to_steal_lock(lock, task)) {
-		/* We got the lock for task. */
-		debug_rt_mutex_lock(lock);
-		rt_mutex_set_owner(lock, task, 0);
+	if (try_to_take_rt_mutex(lock, task, NULL)) {
 		raw_spin_unlock(&lock->wait_lock);
-		rt_mutex_deadlock_account_lock(lock, task);
 		return 1;
 	}
 
 	ret = task_blocks_on_rt_mutex(lock, waiter, task, detect_deadlock);
 
-	if (ret && !waiter->task) {
+	if (ret && !rt_mutex_owner(lock)) {
 		/*
 		 * Reset the return value. We might have
 		 * returned with -EDEADLK and the owner
@@ -1056,6 +969,10 @@
 		 */
 		ret = 0;
 	}
+
+	if (unlikely(ret))
+		remove_waiter(lock, waiter);
+
 	raw_spin_unlock(&lock->wait_lock);
 
 	debug_rt_mutex_print_deadlock(waiter);
@@ -1110,12 +1027,11 @@
 
 	set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
 
-	ret = __rt_mutex_slowlock(lock, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE, to, waiter,
-				  detect_deadlock);
+	ret = __rt_mutex_slowlock(lock, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE, to, waiter);
 
 	set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
 
-	if (unlikely(waiter->task))
+	if (unlikely(ret))
 		remove_waiter(lock, waiter);
 
 	/*
@@ -1126,13 +1042,5 @@
 
 	raw_spin_unlock(&lock->wait_lock);
 
-	/*
-	 * Readjust priority, when we did not get the lock. We might have been
-	 * the pending owner and boosted. Since we did not take the lock, the
-	 * PI boost has to go.
-	 */
-	if (unlikely(ret))
-		rt_mutex_adjust_prio(current);
-
 	return ret;
 }
diff --git a/kernel/rtmutex_common.h b/kernel/rtmutex_common.h
index 97a2f81..53a66c8 100644
--- a/kernel/rtmutex_common.h
+++ b/kernel/rtmutex_common.h
@@ -91,9 +91,8 @@
 /*
  * lock->owner state tracking:
  */
-#define RT_MUTEX_OWNER_PENDING	1UL
-#define RT_MUTEX_HAS_WAITERS	2UL
-#define RT_MUTEX_OWNER_MASKALL	3UL
+#define RT_MUTEX_HAS_WAITERS	1UL
+#define RT_MUTEX_OWNER_MASKALL	1UL
 
 static inline struct task_struct *rt_mutex_owner(struct rt_mutex *lock)
 {
@@ -101,17 +100,6 @@
 		((unsigned long)lock->owner & ~RT_MUTEX_OWNER_MASKALL);
 }
 
-static inline struct task_struct *rt_mutex_real_owner(struct rt_mutex *lock)
-{
-	return (struct task_struct *)
-		((unsigned long)lock->owner & ~RT_MUTEX_HAS_WAITERS);
-}
-
-static inline unsigned long rt_mutex_owner_pending(struct rt_mutex *lock)
-{
-	return (unsigned long)lock->owner & RT_MUTEX_OWNER_PENDING;
-}
-
 /*
  * PI-futex support (proxy locking functions, etc.):
  */