VM question related to faults

[Intron]

mykola.stryebkov at gmail.com wrote:

> On 31.07.2006 14:12:20, Intron wrote:
> 
>> Mutex(9) is sometimes too heavy, and has many limitations, while sx(9)
>> is somewhat enough.
> 
> First paragraph from sx(9) manual says:
> 
> 	Shared/exclusive locks are used to protect data that are read
> 	far more often than they are written.  Mutexes are inherently
> 	more efficient than shared/exclusive locks, so shared/exclusive
> 	locks should be used prudently.
> 
> 
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But sx(9) also says in section "CONTEXT",

    A thread may hold a shared or exclusive lock on an sx lock while sleep-
    ing.  

You may try copyout() when holding a mutex(9) on 7.0-CURRENT.
Look out for kernel crash.

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