Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 15 Oct 2005 15:33:09 +0800 | From | Coywolf Qi Hunt <> | Subject | Re: lock_kernel twice possible ? |
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On 10/15/05, li nux <lnxluv@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I was going thru the NFS v3 code for SMP kernel 2.6.11 > to see how an inode gets revalidated. I found that > there is a possibility that there may be an attempt to > do lock_kernel() twice. > > Is this possible ? If yes then how this deadlock > condition is/can be avoided.
The BKL is recursive! -- Coywolf Qi Hunt http://sosdg.org/~coywolf/ - 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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