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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	DRI Development <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
	linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] console_lock debug improvements
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 13:18:46 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120822141846.3b142c12@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1345588472-4055-1-git-send-email-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>

On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 00:34:30 +0200
Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> After Dave Airlie blew through a few days to track down a deadlock at boot-up
> when handing over from the firmware fb to the kms/drm framebuffer driver (1), I've
> figured that lockdep /should/ have caught this.
> 
> And indeed, by adding proper annotations to the console_lock it complains about
> the potential deadlock when exercising the entire driver life-cycle of just one
> fb driver (i.e. not even a handover required). While at it, I've replaced the
> existing in_interrupt check with the more paranoid might_sleep.
> 
> Comments, flames and review highly welcome.

This will be an absolute godsend for DRI debugging. Definitely wants to go
in.

Alan

      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-08-22 13:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-21 22:34 [PATCH 0/2] console_lock debug improvements Daniel Vetter
2012-08-21 22:34 ` [PATCH 1/2] console: use might_sleep in console_lock Daniel Vetter
2012-08-21 22:34 ` [PATCH 2/2] console: implement lockdep support for console_lock Daniel Vetter
2012-08-22 13:18 ` Alan Cox [this message]

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