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From: "Manfred Spraul" <manfred@colorfullife.com>
To: "Rik van Riel" <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Subject: Re: 3rd version of R/W mmap_sem patch available
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 00:13:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <001201c0b0ca$30eb1910$5517fea9@local> (raw)

>
> Besides, the fair semaphores would potentially slow things down, while
> this potentially speeds things up. So.. It looks obvious enough.
>

Rik, did you check that {pte,pmd}_alloc are thread safe? At least in
2.4.2 they aren't (include/asm-i386/pgalloc.h), and your patch doesn't
touch pgalloc.

{pte,pmd}_alloc are called from handle_mm_fault, and that function is
now running with down_read().
--

    Manfred




             reply	other threads:[~2001-03-19 23:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-03-19 23:13 Manfred Spraul [this message]
2001-03-19 23:27 ` 3rd version of R/W mmap_sem patch available Linus Torvalds
2001-03-19 23:35   ` Linus Torvalds
2001-03-20  4:37     ` Rik van Riel
2001-03-20  4:35 ` Rik van Riel
2001-03-20  4:41   ` Linus Torvalds
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.33.0103191802330.2076-100000@mikeg.weiden.de>
2001-03-20  1:56 ` Rik van Riel
2001-03-19 22:46   ` Linus Torvalds
2001-03-20  2:46   ` Linus Torvalds
2001-03-20  4:15     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-03-20  6:07       ` Linus Torvalds
2001-03-20  4:29         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-03-20  6:36           ` Linus Torvalds
     [not found] <3AB6C7C2.D1A49FEF@uow.edu.au>
2001-03-20  3:35 ` Linus Torvalds

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