From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Olof Johansson <olof@austin.ibm.com>,
Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
jamie@shareable.org, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Futex mmap_sem deadlock
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 15:08:52 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050222230852.GA10067@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0502221359420.2378@ppc970.osdl.org>
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 02:10:58PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Oh, well. The reason I hate the rwsem behaviour is exactly because it
> results in this very subtle class of deadlocks. This one case is certainly
> solvable several ways, but do we have other issues somewhere else? Things
> like kobject might be ripe with things like this. The mm semaphore tends
> to be pretty well-behaved - and I'm not sure the same is true of the
> kobject one.
I'm trying to get rid of the kobject (actually the subsystem) rwsem
right now, so it should be gone completly within a few kernel versions.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-22 23:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-22 19:06 [PATCH/RFC] Futex mmap_sem deadlock Olof Johansson
2005-02-22 19:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-22 21:16 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-22 21:19 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-22 21:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-22 21:42 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-22 22:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-22 22:24 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-22 23:08 ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-02-23 11:24 ` David Howells
2005-02-22 19:55 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-22 21:07 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-02-22 21:19 ` Olof Johansson
2005-02-22 22:09 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-02-22 21:19 ` Chris Friesen
2005-02-22 21:27 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-02-22 21:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-22 22:34 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-02-22 22:42 ` Olof Johansson
2005-02-22 23:20 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-22 23:23 ` Olof Johansson
2005-02-23 11:39 ` David Howells
2005-02-23 16:22 ` Olof Johansson
2005-02-23 18:44 ` David Howells
2005-02-23 14:49 ` Joe Korty
2005-02-23 15:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-23 17:10 ` Olof Johansson
2005-02-23 17:37 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-02-23 18:22 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-02-23 18:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-23 18:49 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-02-23 19:12 ` Olof Johansson
2005-02-23 22:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-24 0:00 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-02-23 18:37 ` Olof Johansson
2005-02-22 21:40 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-22 21:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-23 11:42 ` David Howells
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