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Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 20:41:41 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: 3rd version of R/W mmap_sem patch available
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On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> (ie the patch really isn't ready yet to be included in the
> main kernel ... OTOH, the changes needed to make it ready
> are all trivial and tedious ;))

They are trivial and tedious only if done wrong - which will also add tons
of new places where we lock and unlock only to lock again.

My -pre5 has the non-trivial "fix the calling convention and require that
pmd/pgd_alloc() be called with the lock held" version of the patch.

		Linus

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