Hmmmm. One wild idea would be to use a priority futex for the slab lock? That would make the slow paths interrupt safe without requiring interrupt disable? Does a futex fit into the page struct? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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