On 10/15/05, li nux <[email protected]> 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!
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