willy@thepuffingroup.com wrote:
>
> I've fixed this in
> my tree by putting all accesses to the lock data structures under its
> own semaphore.
>
It's dangerous to replace lock_kernel() with a single semaphore:
lock_kernel() means one cpu, down() means one thread.
Did you double check that you don't cause a major slowdown/reschedules,
e.g. if kmalloc() sleeps?
I've always replaced lock_kernel() with one spinlock.
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