Re: lock_kernel twice possible ?

[li nux]

Sorry, couldn't get what you want to say.
Can you please elaborate.

--- Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 10/15/05, li nux <lnxluv@xxxxxxxxx> 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/
> 



		
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