Messages in this thread | | | From | Ron Niles <> | Subject | RE: Oops from local semaphore race condition | Date | Tue, 21 May 2002 15:41:19 -0400 |
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Ron.Niles@falconstor.com said: >> Then I realized it can possibly go corrupt, due to a race condition >> which lets down() continue before up() is complete:
From: David Woodhouse [mailto:dwmw2@infradead.org]
>This is what completions were added for.
Thanks, struct completion is the best way; it's gonna be tough to maintain backward compatibility though.
One comment; it looks like the implementation in sched.c should more properly be using wq_write_lock_irqsave on the lock.
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