On Wed, 26 May 1999 19:41:11 +0200, Manfred Spraul
<manfreds@colorfullife.com> said:
> 1) Andrea noticed that 'unlock_kernel()' only releases the kernel lock
> if the lock was obtained once.
Yes, but in all the places we are currently doing the copy_*_user, we
only hold the lock once. In general we might want to do a true
save/restore of lock_depth for a new, self-unlocking copy_*_user, but
right now the droplock diffs still do the right thing the simple way.
--Stephen
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