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authorJosh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>2011-10-26 18:23:52 -0400
committerJosh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>2011-10-26 21:03:18 -0400
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+From: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@nelhage.com>
+Subject: epoll: fix suprious lockdep warnings
+
epoll can acquire multiple ep->mutex on multiple "struct eventpoll"s
at once in the case where one epoll fd is monitoring another epoll
fd. This is perfectly OK, since we're careful about the lock ordering,