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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,