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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: David Collins <collinsd@codeaurora.org>,
	Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>,
	linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: Deadlock scenario in regulator core
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:01:01 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110323000100.GB2529@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1300835998.14261.13.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com>

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 07:19:58PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> Looks to me that the mutex_lock() in _notifier_call_chain needs to be a
> mutex_lock_nested().

> The "_nested()" versions are when you have the same type of mutex taken
> but belonging to two different instances. Like you have here:

What's a mutex type?  I have to say this is the first time I've heard of
mutex types and the documentation in mutex.c and mutex-design.txt isn't
precisely verbose on what mutex_lock_nested() is for or how one would
pick subclass.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-03-23  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-22 22:02 Deadlock scenario in regulator core David Collins
2011-03-22 22:31 ` Mark Brown
2011-03-22 23:30   ` David Collins
2011-03-22 23:45     ` Mark Brown
2011-03-22 22:37 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-03-22 23:08   ` David Collins
2011-03-22 23:19     ` Steven Rostedt
2011-03-22 23:41       ` David Collins
2011-03-23  0:07         ` Steven Rostedt
2011-03-23  0:11           ` Mark Brown
2011-03-25 10:55           ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-03-23  0:01       ` Mark Brown [this message]
2011-03-23  0:38         ` Steven Rostedt
2011-03-23 10:42           ` Mark Brown
2011-03-25 10:59             ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-03-22 22:43 ` Mark Brown

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