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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org> wrote:
> 
> Possible, but unlikely. If there can be a deadlock if they are frozen in
> reverse order, the same problem existed during creation and needed
> to be specially handled.

So exactly which kernel threads will dead lock when frozen in the wrong
order? So far I've only seen user process vs. kernel thread examples.

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