I don't see a deadlock, I only see problems for UP kernels
(spinlock and trylock both become NOP, linked lists could be corrupt)
Could you please explain the deadlock?
It can violate the strict buffer cache locking order if the sequence
of events is just right.
Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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