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Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 00:57:45 -0400
From: "Xin Zhao" <uszhaoxin@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: question about nfs_execute_read: why do we need to do lock_kernel?
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This question may be dumb. But I am curious why in nfs_execute_read()
function, rpc_execute  is bracketed with lock_kernel() and
unlock_kernel()?

Thanks in advance for your help!

xin