On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 10:43:58AM +0200, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> When looking at alloc_sem, I realized that it is only needed to avoid
> race with adjacent group buddy initialization.
Actually, alloc_sem is used to protect all of the block group specific
data structures; the buddy bitmap counters, adjusting the buddy bitmap
itself, the largest free order in a block group, etc. So even in the
case where block_size == page_size, alloc_sem is still needed!
- Ted
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