Re: [PATCH] fix obj vma sorting

Hugh Dickins (hugh@veritas.com)
Thu, 10 Apr 2003 15:39:02 +0100 (BST)


On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
>
> Yeah, sorry ... I guess someone should have published the phone conversation
> we had yesterday ... </me pokes Dave in the eye>

No problem: I left you all hanging.

> We came to the conclusion that should be adding the semaphore to the current
> code even, as list_add_tail isn't atomic to a doubly linked list

Sure you can't list_add_tail without the semaphore: where is it missed?

Hugh

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