On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> Isn't Olof scheme racy ? Can't the stuff get swapped out between the
> first get_user() and the "real" one ?
Yes. But see my suggested modification (which I still think is "the thing
that Olof does", except it's more efficient and avoids the race).
If rwsems acted like rwlocks, we wouldn't have this issue at all.
Linus
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