On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 12:31 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> 
> On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> > 
> > OK.  I don't actually need to do this, but I was asking for completeness.  But
> > to clarify, you only need to do the reverse unlock if you do it after
> > unlocking the outer lock?  If you're still holding the outer lock, you can
> > unlock in any order?
> 
> Release order should always be totally irrelevant, whether you hold outer 
> locks or not. Only the order of _getting_ locks matter.
> 
> And yes, if there is an outer lock, even the order of getting locks is 
> irrelevant, as long as anybody who gets more than one inner lock always 
> holds the outer one.

I agree, its just non-trivial to convince lockdep of this. I can give it
a go though.

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