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 ;)
next prev parent 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]
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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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