Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 15:59:12 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@texware.it>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
       Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
       LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove the BKL: remove "BKL auto-drop" assumption from
	nfs3_rpc_wrapper()
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* Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@texware.it> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 2009/4/10 Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>:
> [...]
> >> Fix nfs3_rpc_wrapper()'s "schedule() drops the BKL automatically" assumption,
> >> when schedule_timeout_killable() does not do that it can lock up.
> [...]
> > Btw, does it fix the lockdep message you've seen while mounting
> > an nfs point?
> 
> Unfortunately no. That lockdep message still happens when I 
> unmount rpc_pipefs. I'll investigate further.

might make sense to post that message here out in the open - maybe 
someone with a strong NFSd-fu will comment on it.

	Ingo
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