From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 18:43:18 +0000
Subject: Re: Who owns those locks ?
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To: Zoltan.Menyhart@bull.net
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> Why don't you put the ID of the owner of the lock in the lock word ?
> Here is your patch for IA-64.
> Doesn't cost any additional instruction, you can have it in your
> "production" kernel, too.

We already do this on ppc64.

Anton