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Subjectholding kernel semaphores while in userspace ...

I've two processes that both read/write a shared resource (read via mmap,
write via write) that my device driver controls...

Now I know I could use SYSV semaphores and a shared mem region to
implement read/write semaphores but this seems to me to be a bit
heavyweight - I know I probably want futexes also (but this is 2.4 and I
probably wouldn't get that patch past the people here..)

So I was wondering if I added a couple of ioctls to my driver to wrap
access to a rwsem in the kernel, so four ioctls doing read/write up/down
combinations (are there interruptible versions for rwsems??), or is what
I'm doing stupid and evil .. and should I just be happy with my SYSV
semaphores or just use futexes (do these work acroess processes??)

Dave.

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David Airlie, Software Engineer
http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / airlied@skynet.ie
pam_smb / Linux DecStation / Linux VAX / ILUG person


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