> There are some real ones there. The ones surrounding lock_kernel() and
> semaphores are false positives.
>
> lock_kernel() is special, in that the lock is dropped when the caller
> performs a voluntary context switch. So there are no ordering requirements
> between lock_kernel and the sleeping locks down(), down_read(), down_write().
Ah. I actually knew that. Embarassing. Thanks for pointing it out;
I'll make the change.
BTW, are there known deadlocks (harmless or otherwise)? Debugging
the checker is a bit hard since false negatives are silent...
Dawson
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