JFFS2 deadlock with alloc_sem

[Dave Kleikamp]

On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 00:35 +0800, ye janboe wrote:
> David
> 
> Thanks for you comments.
> I still can not understand why there is comment in code say the dead
> lock can not happen.
> Could you give me some hints?

I could only speculate, since I really don't know the code.  I suspect
the writer of the comment had some other deadlock scenario in mind and
didn't foresee the one that was encountered.

Shaggy
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David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center