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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] sysctl: lockdep support for sysctl reference counting.
On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:42:19 -0700 ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:

> It is possible for get lock ordering deadlocks between locks
> and waiting for the sysctl used count to drop to zero. We have
> recently observed one of these in the networking code.
>
> So teach the sysctl code how to speak lockdep so the kernel
> can warn about these kinds of rare issues proactively.

`make headers_check':

/usr/src/25/usr/include/linux/sysctl.h:31: included file 'linux/lockdep.h' is not exported
make[2]: *** [/usr/src/25/usr/include/linux/.check] Error 1

It looks like we'll need version 2 on these patches..


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