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    SubjectRe: [PATCH]IPC locks breaking down with RCU
    On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Dipankar Sarma wrote:
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    > I took a quick look at the original ipc code and I don't understand
    > something - it seems to me the ipc_ids structs are protected by the semaphore
    > inside for all operations, so why do we need the spinlock in the
    > first place ? Am I missing something here ?

    I made that mistake too at first, Mingming set me straight.
    Many of the entry points down() the ipc_ids.sem semaphore, but the
    most significant ones do not. ipc/sem.c is probably the best example
    (if confusing, since it involves quite different meanings of semaphore):
    sys_semop() is the frequent, fast entry point, uses sem_lock without down.

    Hugh

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