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SubjectRe: Possible IRQ lock inversion from 2.6.29-Linus-03321-gbe0ea69 (2.6.29-git)
Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>
> We could do that. When I made the change I'd verified that there were
> no users in IRQ context, and I couldn't really see why there should
> be. I'd rather avoid adding all those IRQ disables if I can avoid it.
>
> How about, instead, just reversing the order of lock acquisition in
> fasync_helper()? That would increase the hold time for f_lock, but I
> have a hard time seeing that being a real problem. I'm running with
> the following now; all seems well. I'll send it up in a bit if nobody
> gripes.

The patch gets rid of the warning for me.

Larry


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