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Is it safe to grab the global kernel lock multiple times?

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Is it safe to grab the global kernel lock multiple times?

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• (REG) Yes. The global kernel lock is recursive per process. That means a process can grab the lock multiple times and not deadlock. The lock is released when unlock_kernel() is called as many times as lock_kernel() was called.

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