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On 08/11/2007, Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> wrote:

>  Unfortunately, the GEOM block layer is
> not free of this deadlock, so this whole discussion is mostly academic
> (the GEOM problem is small and very hard to trigger since it uses the
> zone allocator, but problems have been observed in real-world
> situations, which is a shame).

Maybe not the GEOM layer itself but various GEOM classes. For example,
most non-trivial classes spawn handler threads that do
malloc(M_WAITOK).