On Thu, 13 May 2010 14:16:33 +0800 Miao Xie <miaox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > The code you have at present is fairly similar to sequence locks. I > > wonder if there's some way of (ab)using sequence locks for this. > > seqlocks don't have lockdep support either... > > > > We can't use sequence locks here, because the read-side may read the data > in changing, but it can't put off cleaning the old bits. I don't understand that sentence. Can you expand on it please? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>