Re: [PATCH 06/11] rwsem: wake queued readers when writer blocks onactive read lock

From: Tony Luck
Date: Thu Aug 12 2010 - 12:25:01 EST


On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Tony, can you verify that just dropping the "__IA64_UL_CONST" makes
> things work for you? Having a non-working rwsem makes me really
> nervous, but considering the lack of reports on other architectures, I
> really do hope this is just a trivial ia64 signedness difference.

Yes it does. Please pull from

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6.git release

to get this fix.

-Tony
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