Re: [PATCH v2] ipc/sem.c: fix lockup, restore FIFO behavior

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Sat May 25 2013 - 23:44:24 EST


On Sun, 2013-05-26 at 05:19 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-05-25 at 22:00 +0200, Manfred Spraul wrote:
>
> > P.S.:
> > Btw, I found some code that uses a semop with 2 ops:
> > http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r3/index.jsp?topic=%2Fapis%2Fapiexusmem.htm
>
> I recently analyzed rt traces containing 9 ops.

P.S. I dearly hope your patch flies, for otherwise I shall be sweating
frickin' bullets when the application that does that meets a new kernel.

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