Re: An SMP patch for NFS]

[Alan Cox]

> It is svc_exit_thread () called from nfsd. I am not sure if it
> takes the kernel lock.

nfsd takes the lock at startup. See nfsd(). The first stuff it does is to
do a MOD_INC_USE_COUNT, lock_kernel();

handle_sys_nfsservctl also holds the lock.

So its safe as is. Thats not saying the change might not be a good thing
anyway for when we loosen the locking


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