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sasha_Does anyone here have instructions to create a kernel patch from a github driver file? Thanks.02:57
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awreeceI'm noticing a behavior I'm having difficulty explaing -- my application is doing exceptional amounts of `mmap`s from many threads and is contending in the kernel on `mm->mmap_sem`. My expectation is that CPU profiling would reveal this contention; however, I appear to be missing it. 19:59
awreeceIf I use the sched:sched_switch tracepoints with perf, I can very easily see that I'm getting dequeued19:59
awreeceI'm surprised that I don't see more CPU usage here: I guess `rwsem_down_read/write_failed` immediately deschedule if it fails?20:02
awreeceI must be blind, I don't see anything in the tree documenting rwsem20:05
awreece`git grep rwsem -- Documentation`20:05
NoskcajIs there any recent change that would cause 15.10 to fail to upgrade to 16.04 with linux-image-4.3.0-2-generic install failure? I think it's lp:152785421:44

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