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Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> writes:

> On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 15:26 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> So I merged these two patches.  I designated them as to-be-merged via
>> Alexey, with a Cc:Peter (IOW: wakey wakey ;))
>
> Ah, I was under the impression they weren't quite finished yet,
> apparently I was mistaken.
>
> Eric, didn't you need recursive locks fixed and such?

In theory.  In practice I removed the one case that could legitimately
recurse.

> Let me have a look at them.