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On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 20:02:18 -0500
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:


> Now you see why I found just dropping the parent mutex easier.

And this is probably why kernfs does things the way it does. I can
imagine it having the same locking issues.

-- Steve