On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> (ie the patch really isn't ready yet to be included in the
> main kernel ... OTOH, the changes needed to make it ready
> are all trivial and tedious ;))
They are trivial and tedious only if done wrong - which will also add tons
of new places where we lock and unlock only to lock again.
My -pre5 has the non-trivial "fix the calling convention and require that
pmd/pgd_alloc() be called with the lock held" version of the patch.
Linus
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