RE: condvar wakeups

Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.phil
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 8 May 2003, Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky wrote:

> Call me pedantic, please, but if we are attaching so many waiters to a
> new page, shall not we unpin q->page before requeuing, then pin that new
> page once per waiter and then at the tail of futex_wait()  unpin
> q->page?
> 
> Unless I am missing anything, once we exit from requeue(), page2 is not
> pinned by anyone, so it could be perfectly be taken out to swap space
> for a walk.

you are completely right - the counts are messed up.

	Ingo
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