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[PATCH] cpusets: remove depth counted locking hack
authorPaul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:02:28 +0000 (15:02 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Mon, 31 Oct 2005 01:37:21 +0000 (17:37 -0800)
commit5aa15b5f27fc2c404530c6c8eabdb8437deb3163
tree914f0b33f5190bd0183cde2e9f6da552d3d1d7aa
parentf35f31d7ed0150f9865619f21b5050c91b46c03f
[PATCH] cpusets: remove depth counted locking hack

Remove a rather hackish depth counter on cpuset locking.  The depth counter
was avoiding a possible double trip on the global cpuset_sem semaphore.  It
worked, but now an improved version of cpuset locking is available, to come
in the next patch, using two global semaphores.

This patch reverses "cpuset semaphore depth check deadlock fix"

The kernel still works, even after this patch, except for some rare and
difficult to reproduce race conditions when agressively creating and
destroying cpusets marked with the notify_on_release option, on very large
systems.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
kernel/cpuset.c