* Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> [...]
>
> As usual, the paravirt code is a horribly buggy heap of crud.
> Film at 11.
>
> Why did I think we had this bug but already fixed it ? Maybe
> it's one of those things that Waiman fixed in his long delayed
> qspinlock series? Waiman? Or maybe I just remember the fixes
> where we changed from a mutex to a spinlock, which fixed a very
> similar case for non-paravirtualized cases.
We definitely had such a high profile bug in the native case,
years before the qspinlock series came along. I don't remember
the specifics anymore, but maybe it was in the VFS code?
Thanks,
Ingo
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