Re: Deadlock on the mm->mmap_sem

David Howells (dhowells@redhat.com)
Tue, 18 Sep 2001 16:26:11 +0100


> > Okay preliminary as-yet-untested patch to cure coredumping of the need> to
> >hold the mm semaphore:
>
> If you want codd for this its in the older -ac tree. Linus decided it wasnt
> justified so it went out

Arjan said there was such a beast in the -ac stuff, but I guess this explains
why I couldn't find it... Do you have any idea which -ac's?

Oh well, I'd already done my patch anyway. Does it look okay to you.

David
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