Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...>, Alan Cox <alan@...>, Alexander Viro <viro@...>
On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 13:27 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
No, that would defeat the whole purpose of the exercise. This drop on
schedule property makes it possible to have inverse lock order and not
deadlock.
That also makes the manual re-acquire on a different level pretty ugly
and deadlock prone.
The whole purpose of this patch series was to get rid of this exact
problem so that the BKL turns into something that resembles a normal
lock within the regular locking hierarchy.
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