On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>
> I prefer to do it without lookup too and it's actually trivial to do that
> even in SMP. I did a patch against 2.4.0-test5 that should achieve that
> purpose (it compiles but I've not booted it).
>
> ftp://ftp.*.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/patches/v2.4/2.4.0-test5/getblk-smp-race-1
It looks pretty, but it seems to deadlock somewhere. Probably something
that gets called with the lock held and re-gets the lock..
Linus
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