Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 May 2007 07:45:07 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] timerfd/eventfd context lock doesn't protect against poll_wait |
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On Thu, 17 May 2007, Davide Libenzi wrote: > > Thx Davi, patch is correct. Nice catch. But at this point instead of > ending up getting two locks, we may look into using Andrew suggestion of > reusing the waitqueue lock. Is it universally considered a "legal" > operation?
Yes. Perhaps not for drivers etc, but stuff that is deeply involved in waitqueue handling anyway, sure.
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