On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 02:04:09PM -0700, Colin Cross wrote: > NFS calls the freezable helpers with locks held, which is unsafe > and caused lockdep warnings when 6aa9707 "lockdep: check that no > locks held at freeze time" was applied (reverted in dbf520a). > Add new *_unsafe versions of the helpers that will not run the > lockdep test when 6aa9707 is reapplied, and call them from NFS. Am I the only one that would like a bit more information about why NFS does this and why we need to work around it? >From replies in this thread I surmise its got something to do with hard NFS mounts. And I suppose I could go apply google to lkml and try and find the previous discussion, but really this should be in the Changelog. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
