Re: [kerneloops] regression in 2.6.27 wrt "lock_page" and the"hwclock" program

From: Karel Zak
Date: Sun Oct 12 2008 - 16:00:27 EST


On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 10:38:26AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> I get the impression from the code that it really wants a "don't
> schedule me out" rather than "this is a lock".

Yes, I think so.

> it can do better.

Any suggestion how to nicely implement "don't schedule me out"?

Karel

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