From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261243AbVGTOcV (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:32:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261240AbVGTOcU (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:32:20 -0400 Received: from dgate1.fujitsu-siemens.com ([217.115.66.35]:60967 "EHLO dgate1.fujitsu-siemens.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261243AbVGTOcQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:32:16 -0400 X-SBRSScore: None X-IronPort-AV: i="3.93,303,1114984800"; d="scan'208"; a="12866408:sNHT26947556" Message-ID: <42DE606D.9090900@fujitsu-siemens.com> Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 16:32:13 +0200 From: Martin Wilck Organization: Fujitsu Siemens Computers User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (X11/20040208) X-Accept-Language: de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: files_lock deadlock? References: <42DD2E37.3080204@fujitsu-siemens.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jan Engelhardt wrote: > I'm probably stabbing in the dark, but I've seen ipt_owner of netfilter to > talk about spin_lock_bh() wrt. files->file_lock. That is a different lock. I am talking about the global files_lock (include/linux/fs.h) Regards Martin -- Martin Wilck Phone: +49 5251 8 15113 Fujitsu Siemens Computers Fax: +49 5251 8 20409 Heinz-Nixdorf-Ring 1 mailto:Martin.Wilck@Fujitsu-Siemens.com D-33106 Paderborn http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com/primergy