On Wed, 1 May 2013, David Rientjes wrote:

> > Don't acquire ashmem_mutex in ashmem_shrink if we've somehow recursed into 
> > the
> > shrinker code from within ashmem. Just bail out, avoiding a deadlock. This 
> > is
> > fine, as ashmem cache pruning is advisory anyhow.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Robert Love <[email protected]>
> 
> Any reason not to send this to [email protected] if it fixes an 
> observable deadlock?  (It's annotated to be applied to linux-next, but I 
> don't see any differences between it and Linus's tree.)
> 

This was sent separately to [email protected] before being merged 
into Linus's tree .  Greg, could this be queued up for 3.10 with a cc to 
[email protected]?
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