BUG: circular locking dependency detected
Linus Torvalds
torvalds at linux-foundation.org
Wed Jan 30 16:26:53 PST 2013
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Russell King <rmk at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> Which may or may not be a good thing depending how you look at it; it
> means that once your kernel blanks, you get a lockdep dump. At that
> point you lose lockdep checking for everything else because lockdep
> disables itself after the first dump.
Fair enough, we may want to revert the lockdep checking for
console_lock, and make re-enabling it part of the patch-series that
fixes the locking.
Daniel/Dave? Does that sound reasonable?
Linus
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