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On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 18:15:32 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote: > > > On Sat, 22 Jul 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:> > > > It was just wrong in conception. We should not and probably cannot fix it. > > Let's just delete it all, then implement version 2.> > Well, I just got Ashok's trial patches which turns the thing into a rwsem > as I outlined earlier. Mark my words ;) > I'll try them out. If they don't work, we should just delete the lock and > go totally back to square 1. rwsem conversion has the potential to merely hide the problem. Ingo, does lockdep detect recursive down_read()? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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