Re: 2.6.6-rc3-mm2

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 04:17:05PM +0400, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> also, exclusive wakeups have no problems, and process
> waiting in wait_on_page_writeback() won't be waken
> by unlock_page(). it will be waken _only_ when that
> bit will be cleared.

I didn't feel obligated to answer the last time since I suspected you'd
not press the issue after realizing the error.

The object isn't passed down to the wake function at all, so it can't
avoid falsely scheduling waiters on the wrong objects and/or bits.


-- wli
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