Re: Oops from local semaphore race condition

From: David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Date: Tue May 21 2002 - 07:26:14 EST

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Ron.Niles@falconstor.com said:
> Then I realized it can possibly go corrupt, due to a race condition
> which lets down() continue before up() is complete:

This is what completions were added for.

-- dwmw2

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