Re: downgrade_write replacement in remap_file_pages

David Howells
2004-06-08T17:05:31Z

> Apparently downgrade_write deadlocks the kernel in the mmap_sem
> under load.

Which implementation of rwsems is your kernel using? The spinlock-based one or
the XADD based one? Have you tried the other version?

Have you more than 32767 processes?

Do you have any stack traces?

David