Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Apr 2001 15:33:57 +0900 | From | Tachino Nobuhiro <> | Subject | Re: rw_semaphores |
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At Mon, 9 Apr 2001 22:43:53 -0700 (PDT), Linus Torvalds wrote:
> The ordering is certainly possible, but if it happens, > __down_read_failed() won't actually sleep, because it will notice that the > value is positive and just return immediately. So it will do some > unnecessary work (add itself to the wait-queue only to remove itself > immediately again), but it will do the right thing. > > Linus >
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