linux-kernel - Re: sched_yield: delete sysctl_sched_compat

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Date:	Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:08:45 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
Cc:	"Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: sched_yield: delete sysctl_sched_compat_yield


* Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au> wrote:

> Haven't we been asking JVMs to use futexes or posix locking for years 
> and years now? [...]

i'm curious, with what JVM was it tested and where's the source so i can 
fix their locking for them? Can the problem be reproduced with:

  http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/source/SRPMS/java-1.7.0-icedtea-1.7.0.0-0.20.b23.snapshot.fc9.src.rpm

?

	Ingo
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