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Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>, torvalds@transmeta.com,
       Murali N Vilayannur <vilayann@thomson.cse.psu.edu>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] interruptible rwsems 
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> > Here's a patch to add interruptible down functions for rwsems (developed by
> > Murali N Vilayannur with help from myself).
> 
> Do we actually have a potential use for this, or is it just cool
> infrastructure?

Murali Vilayannur does.

David
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