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Re: SPL NOT ZERO ON SYSCALL ENTRY



On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:09:31AM -0700, Matt Thomas wrote:
> 
> On Mar 11, 2008, at 5:46 PM, Bill Stouder-Studenmund wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 12:46:07AM +0100, Matthias Drochner wrote:
> >>
> >the name, but I'm forgetting what exact term we used) in an order  
> >opposite
> >of the one in which we took them. ??
> 
> Except mutexes don't work that way.
> 
> spl is only dropped (to the old spl) once *all* mutex all released.
> So order of release doesn't matter.

Ok. Good to know!

So maybe there's an un-dropped mutex?

If there's not an un-exited mutex, then the problem is then in whatever 
code we have that does spl manipulation the old way.

Take care,

Bill

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