On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Pekka Enberg wrote:
>
> What's "nested lock" btw? If I understood from the other patch, you're
> talking about ac->lock. Surely you can't take the same lock twice but
> it's perfectly legal to take lock as long as the ac instance is
> different...
Normally, no. You can't take another lock just because the instance is
different. That causes ABBA deadlocks unless you have some underlying
_ordering_ of the different lock instances.
Linus
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