Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: BUG: deadlock in swap lockmap handling | Date | Mon, 18 Jan 1999 22:24:38 +0000 (GMT) |
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> I think it will not harm too much because the window is not too big (but > not small) and because usually one of the process not yet deadlocked will > generate IO and will wakeup also the deadlocked process at I/O > completation time. A very lazy ;) but at the same time obviosly right
Take it from me - the scenario you give will cause deadlocks and problems. There were other "generating an I/O would have cleaned up" type problems in 2.0.x < .35/6. They caused a lot of grief with installers where that I/O assumption is not true. Another classic case is large fsck's during boot up.
So its not just a trivial irrelevant fix.
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