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Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:35:03 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] de-semaphorize smackfs On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 05:14:40PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > While looking at the generic semaphore patch, I came to wonder what the > remaining semaphore users in the kernel were actually doing. After a > quick grep for down_interruptible(), smackfs remained at the bottom of > my screen. It seems like a straightforward mutex case - low-hanging > fruit. So here's a conversion patch; compile-tested only, but what > could go wrong? The lock is kept while returning to userspace and could potentially be release by another process. This is not allowed for mutexes. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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