Re: [PATCH] timerfd/eventfd context lock doesn't protect againstpoll_wait

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, 17 May 2007, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> 
> Thx Davi, patch is correct. Nice catch. But at this point instead of 
> ending up getting two locks, we may look into using Andrew suggestion of 
> reusing the waitqueue lock. Is it universally considered a "legal" 
> operation?

Yes. Perhaps not for drivers etc, but stuff that is deeply involved in 
waitqueue handling anyway, sure.

		Linus
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