Tachino Nobuhiro wrote:
>
> vmalloc_area_pages() in 2.4.2-ac25 seems to be broken. It calls
> spin_lock(&init_mm.page_table_lock) twice and causes system hang.
>
Yes, it would. Delete the innermost lock and unlock.
--- linux-2.4.2-ac25/mm/vmalloc.c Mon Mar 26 21:38:38 2001
+++ ac/mm/vmalloc.c Mon Mar 26 21:52:05 2001
@@ -152,9 +152,7 @@
do {
pmd_t *pmd;
- spin_lock(&init_mm.page_table_lock); /* pmd_alloc requires this */
pmd = pmd_alloc(&init_mm, dir, address);
- spin_unlock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
ret = -ENOMEM;
if (!pmd)
break;
-
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