Re: 3.9+ tty lockdep trace.

[Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>]

On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 10:14:09AM -0400, Peter Hurley wrote:

 > >> Just hit this again, by switching tty's during bootup.
 > >> The previous time was switching from X to console iirc, so that seems to be
 > >> the key to triggering this.
 > >
 > > Sorry for not getting back to this sooner, merge window fun...
 > >
 > > Anyway, Peter, could this be something that your ldisc patches are
 > > triggering?
 > 
 > Yes, although early analysis also suggests the lockdep splat is possible
 > regardless, just much less likely.
 > 
 > I looked at this over the weekend, but I wasn't able to determine (in
 > the limited time I had available) if the splat was valid; ie., if the
 > cpu states could actually be concurrent and result in deadlock.
 > 
 > I need to study the VT_DISALLOCATE ioctl in more detail which I plan
 > to do this week.

I don't know if it proves/disproves anything, but shortly before the dump
gets printed, everything is kind of locked up. I can switch tty's, but
the gettys on them are dead to the world until after the dump.

ISTR a pause for a while when I hit this switching from X too.

	Dave