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The code he pointed to is for kernel 2.6.18 which at this point could be considered ancient history. If you look at current master - https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux....

it looks like it has been re-factored somewhat, although the lock is still in there.



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