Re: Deadlock on the mm->mmap_sem

[David Howells]

> if we go generic then I strongly recommend my version of the generic
> semaphores is _much_ faster (and cleaner) than this one

Not so:-) Your patch, Andrea, grabs the spinlock far more than is necessary.

> (it even allows more than 2^31 concurrent readers on 64 bit archs ;).

Easy enough to fix. Just apply this as well:

--- linux-rwsem-old/include/linux/rwsem.h       Wed Sep 19 19:23:44 2001
+++ linux-rwsem/include/linux/rwsem.h   Wed Sep 19 19:23:47 2001
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
  * - if wait_list is not empty, then there are processes waiting for the semaphore
  */
 struct rw_semaphore {
-       int                     activity;
+       long                    activity;
        spinlock_t              lock;
        struct list_head        wait_list;
 };

David