Re: patent on O_ATOMICLOOKUP [Re: [PATCH] loopable tmpfs (2.4.17)]

[Karim Yaghmour]

Linus Torvalds wrote:
>  "..every single spinlock in the kernel assumes that the kernel isn't
>   preempted, which means that user apps that can preempt the kernel
>   cannot use them."

I misread this paragraph, the rest of my reply follows from this laps.

I said there was no "priority inversion" in the sense that there are
no priority inversion problems during the execution of such user-space
rt tasks. From a purely static perspective, however, the user-space
rt tasks do indeed come to have a higher priority than the kernel.
No fuss there.

That being said, I differ on your judgement of this method.

Karim 

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                 Karim Yaghmour
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