Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Feb 2005 15:08:52 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH/RFC] Futex mmap_sem deadlock |
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On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 02:10:58PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Oh, well. The reason I hate the rwsem behaviour is exactly because it > results in this very subtle class of deadlocks. This one case is certainly > solvable several ways, but do we have other issues somewhere else? Things > like kobject might be ripe with things like this. The mm semaphore tends > to be pretty well-behaved - and I'm not sure the same is true of the > kobject one.
I'm trying to get rid of the kobject (actually the subsystem) rwsem right now, so it should be gone completly within a few kernel versions.
thanks,
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