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DateMon, 24 Jul 2006 21:14:00 +0200
FromIngo Molnar <>
SubjectRe: [patch] inotify: fix deadlock found by lockdep

* Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> wrote:

> Subject: [patch] inotify: fix deadlock found by lockdep
> From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
>
> This is a real deadlock, a nice complex one:
> (warning: long explanation follows so that Andrew can have a complete
> patch description)
>
> it's an ABCDA deadlock:
>
> A iprune_mutex
> B inode->inotify_mutex
> C ih->mutex
> D dev->ev_mutex

wow!

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Ingo
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