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Message-ID: <20081012200004.GI10429@nb.net.home>
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:00:04 +0200
From: Karel Zak <kzak@...hat.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
Subject: Re: [kerneloops] regression in 2.6.27 wrt "lock_page" and the
"hwclock" program
On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 10:38:26AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> I get the impression from the code that it really wants a "don't
> schedule me out" rather than "this is a lock".
Yes, I think so.
> it can do better.
Any suggestion how to nicely implement "don't schedule me out"?
Karel
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