Re: x86 rwsem in 2.4.4pre[234] are still buggy [was Re: rwsem benchmarks [Re: generic rwsem [Re: Alpha "process table hang"]]]

[rmk]

Andrea Arcangeli writes:
> That it is allowed by my generic code that does spin_lock_irq in down_* and
> spin_lock_irqsave in up_* but it's disallowed by the weaker semantics of the
> generic and x86 semaphores 2.4.4pre[2345] (or + David's last patch).

Hang on, who's code is in 2.4.4-pre5?  It claims to be Davids, which does
suffer from the problem I described.

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