Paul M wrote:
> cpuset.c:update_nodemask() uses a write_lock_irq() on tasklist_lock to
> block concurrent forks; a read_lock() suffices and is less intrusive.

Seems reasonable to me - thanks.

> -             write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock);         /* block fork */
> +             read_lock(&tasklist_lock);              /* block fork */
>               if (atomic_read(&cs->count) <= ntasks)
>                       break;                          /* got enough */
> -             write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);       /* try again */
> +             read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);    /* try again */

Too bad you didn't keep the nicely aligned comments aligned ;).

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