From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 05:40:02 +0000 Subject: Re: BUG: circular locking dependency detected Message-Id: <20130131054002.GA3697@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <20130130200648.GA13298@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20130130215211.GA28418@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20130130221946.GA14801@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20130131001339.GC14801@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Russell King , Dave Airlie , Daniel Vetter , Andrew Morton , Florian Tobias Schandinat , "linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , dri-devel On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:26:53AM +1100, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Russell King wrote: > > > > Which may or may not be a good thing depending how you look at it; it > > means that once your kernel blanks, you get a lockdep dump. At that > > point you lose lockdep checking for everything else because lockdep > > disables itself after the first dump. > > Fair enough, we may want to revert the lockdep checking for > console_lock, and make re-enabling it part of the patch-series that > fixes the locking. > > Daniel/Dave? Does that sound reasonable? Reverting the patch is fine with me. Just let me know so I can queue it up again for 3.9. thanks, greg k-h