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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com, mingo@elte.hu,
	arjan@linux.intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, robert.moore@intel.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.17-mm1 - possible recursive locking detected
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 00:57:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060622005736.1124f8b8.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CFF307C98FEABE47A452B27C06B85BB6CF0D03@hdsmsx411.amr.corp.intel.com>

On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 03:51:51 -0400
"Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com> wrote:

>  
> >> The key thing here is that our recent changes in
> >> how the locks are _used_ is okay -- and I think it is.
> >
> >Well.  We don't know that.  We just know that this report of unokayness
> >wasn't right.  With Ingo's Linux-only patch we're in a 
> >position to verify
> >that the locking is probably OK.
> 
> If this were really recursive, my machine would have deadlocked
> instead of booting normally like it did, no?

yup.  If it's SMP ;)

  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-22  7:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-22  7:51 2.6.17-mm1 - possible recursive locking detected Brown, Len
2006-06-22  7:57 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-06-22  7:40 Brown, Len
2006-06-22  7:49 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-22  4:28 Brown, Len
2006-06-22  4:59 ` Andrew Morton

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