Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 May 1999 15:36:40 +0100 | From | Jan-Simon Pendry <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][2.3.0] Read-write locks instead semaphores on UTS structures |
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Jakub Jelinek wrote > > Huh? His patch uses read-write locks and not normal spin-locks, so I don't > understand what you find wrong on it.
read-write locks are a variant of spin locks. you can deadlock the system if you go to sleep holding holding any spin lock. the only exception is the kernel lock which has special code to deal with it in schedule().
ideally the spinlock code (spin_lock and read_lock et al) would have debug versions that counted how many locks were held (in some per-cpu data structure), and have schedule() check that this number was zero before putting the process to sleep.
jan-simon.
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