BUG: circular locking dependency detected
Greg Kroah-Hartman
gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Thu Jan 31 01:21:46 PST 2013
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 09:21:16AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 6:40 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:26:53AM +1100, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >> 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?
>
> Yeah, sounds good.
>
> > Reverting the patch is fine with me. Just let me know so I can queue it
> > up again for 3.9.
>
> Can you please also pick up the (currently) three locking fixups
> around fbcon? Just so that we don't repeat the same fun where people
> complain about lockdep splats, but the fixes are stuck somewhere. And
> I guess Dave would be happy to not end up as fbcon maintainer ;-) He
> has a git branch with them at
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux/log/?h=fbcon-locking-fixes
> though I have a small bikeshed on his last patch pending.
Care to just send me the patches through email when you all get done
bikesheding? And for some reason I thought Andrew was going to handle
these fbcon patches, but if not, I'll be glad to take them.
thanks,
greg k-h
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