Re: [PATCH 1/3][-mm] add class_reclassify macro

[Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>]

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:30:45AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Well what are these lockdep warnings?  Normally such a warning means that
> we have a locking bug. I _assume_ that you've determined that the warnings
> are false-positives?

Andrew, we already discussed this on the thread you started that you
then ignored ...

> The warning which Mariusz Kozlowski discovered ("Subject: Re:
> 2.6.26-rc2-mm1: possible circular locking dependency detected") was
> triggered by the "class semaphore to mutex" conversion and it looks
> like a real bug to me.  Would your patch prevent warnings such as that
> one from being available to us?

The problem is that you add one type of class which then adds devices
that are of another class.  This is not a bug.  My proposal is to give
each sysfs class its own lock class; Dave's is to only do it for the
two classes he knows about that do this.

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