linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] remove the BKL: remove "BKL auto-drop" assumption from nfs3_rpc

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Message-ID: <63a49ef40904101350y68e93b85tad7d355868de9a38@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:50:01 +0200
From:	Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@...ware.it>
To:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove the BKL: remove "BKL auto-drop" assumption from 
	nfs3_rpc_wrapper()

Hi,

2009/4/10 Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.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.

Ciao,
Alessio
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