[PATCH] attempt #2 (Re: Deadlock on the mm->mmap_sem)

From: David Howells (dhowells@redhat.com)
Date: Wed Sep 19 2001 - 18:24:29 EST

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Here's a revised patch to make rwsems unfair. This makes the activity counter
a long (so it can handle up to 2^63 readers on a 64-bit arch) and fixes a
small bug in the lib/rwsem.c file. This now passes all the rwsem tests that
I've got.

David

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