Re: [patch 16/61] lock validator: fown locking workaround

[Andrew Morton]

On Mon, 29 May 2006 23:24:23 +0200
Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> temporary workaround for the lock validator: make all uses of
> f_owner.lock irq-safe. (The real solution will be to express to
> the lock validator that f_owner.lock rules are to be generated
> per-filesystem.)

This description forgot to tell us what problem is being worked around.

This patch is a bit of a show-stopper.  How hard-n-bad is the real fix?
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