Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 22 Jul 2006 22:34:25 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: remove cpu hotplug bustification in cpufreq. |
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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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