Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 12 Sep 1999 05:10:08 -0700 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: [patch] show_buffers() resurrection |
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From: manfreds@colorfullife.com Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 08:03:04 -0400 (EDT)
I don't see a deadlock, I only see problems for UP kernels (spinlock and trylock both become NOP, linked lists could be corrupt)
Could you please explain the deadlock?
It can violate the strict buffer cache locking order if the sequence of events is just right.
Later, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com
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