Re: sleeping while holding a rwspinlock?

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Well, it turns out that for read_maps() it does not really matter as it
tries to get a GFP_KERNEL page *before* getting the lock so we never sleep
holding a lock.

Therefore, I shall redo my previous fs/proc/array.c
"tasklist_lock FIXMEs fixed" patch with one major
difference - this time I *know* exactly what I am doing :)

Regards,
Tigran.

On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Tigran Aivazian wrote:

> I ask plainly - can I sleep while having read-locked rwspinlock?
>
> If yes, thank you.
> If no, I will update Documentation/spinlocks.txt and send you a patch for
> approval.
>
> Thanks,
> Tigran.
>
>

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