Re: 3.2-rc1 and nvidia drivers

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 09:23 +0100, John Kacur wrote:

> Steve - I'm aware that this is a false positive, I discussed this with
> Peter already. Normally I don't like the idea of changing code for a
> tool, but if you see the comment that they wrote above where I put the
> unlock - it was an extraordinary thing NOT to drop the lock here, as
> slab_destroy is normally called without it. It doesn't seem like good
> form to me to hold a lock longer than you need it, and it is a simple
> solution to getting rid of the lockdep splat. (false positive, or
> false negative, depending on how you see it.) That being said, I'm not
> adverse to another solution either, but this one should work and is
> simple.

This is a mainline issue, and it should go there. If mainline accepts
it, then fine. Otherwise, it's not going to go into -rt.

-- Steve