why hold bkl during do_coredump?

From: Josh Aas
Date: Tue Aug 03 2004 - 13:51:49 EST


I'm looking at not holding the bkl during do_coredump, but I can't figure out why its being held in the first place. I can only think of the need to not mess with the current memory map, but mmap_sem is currently held as well. Anybody know what is going on here?

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