On Sun, 27 Apr 2008, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
quoted text > Talking about post 2.6.26: the refcount with rcu in the anon-vma
> conversion seems unnecessary and may explain part of the AIM slowdown
> too. The rest looks ok and probably we should switch the code to a
> compile-time decision between rwlock and rwsem (so obsoleting the
> current spinlock).
You are going to take a semphore in an rcu section? Guess you did not
activate all debugging options while testing? I was not aware that you can
take a sleeping lock from a non preemptible context.
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