Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Mar 2001 20:41:41 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: 3rd version of R/W mmap_sem patch available |
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On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > > (ie the patch really isn't ready yet to be included in the > main kernel ... OTOH, the changes needed to make it ready > are all trivial and tedious ;))
They are trivial and tedious only if done wrong - which will also add tons of new places where we lock and unlock only to lock again.
My -pre5 has the non-trivial "fix the calling convention and require that pmd/pgd_alloc() be called with the lock held" version of the patch.
Linus
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