On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 03:51:51 -0400
"Brown, Len" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >> The key thing here is that our recent changes in
> >> how the locks are _used_ is okay -- and I think it is.
> >
> >Well. We don't know that. We just know that this report of unokayness
> >wasn't right. With Ingo's Linux-only patch we're in a
> >position to verify
> >that the locking is probably OK.
>
> If this were really recursive, my machine would have deadlocked
> instead of booting normally like it did, no?
yup. If it's SMP ;)
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