BUG: circular locking dependency detected

[Dave Airlie]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 8:21 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> 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.

I'll ship them via my tree at this point I think, since I now need to
queue a revert of the revert on top.

I have a few vgacon/fbcon fixes that I need to go in this cycle.

Dave.