Messages in this thread |  | | From | Nikita Danilov <> | Date | Mon, 27 Jan 2003 18:04:04 +0300 | Subject | Re: possible deadlock in sys_pivot_root()? |
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Nikita Danilov writes: > Hello, > > sys_pivot_root() first takes BKL, then ->i_sem on the old root > directory. On the other hand, vfs_readdir() first takes ->i_sem on a > directory and then calls file system ->readdir() method, that usually > takes BKL. Isn't there a deadlock possibility? Of course,
Should think more before posting. Special treatment of BKL by scheduler makes this impossible.
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