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From: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: MPTSAS problems in 2.6.26-rc2-mm1
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 20:26:27 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <483D729B.1000706@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1211986063.3445.18.camel@localhost.localdomain>

James Bottomley wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 11:45 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 15:11 +0530, Balbir Singh wrote:
>>> I have 2.6.26-rc2-mm1 with Rik's splitvm patches. While booting the kernel, I
>>> ran into the following. I searched my email quickly to see that no one else has
>>> reported this problem. Lockdep seems to be complaining about the same lock being
>>> held at the same location (the message is a bit confusing to me).
>> looks like device_add() recursing - most likely with a different device
>> though.
> 
> This is another instance of a problem being caused by semaphore to mutex
> conversion in struct class;
> 
> There's another thread on this here:
> 
> http://marc.info/?t=121074904600001

Thanks for pointer, it does indeed look like a variant of the same problem

-- 
	Warm Regards,
	Balbir Singh
	Linux Technology Center
	IBM, ISTL

      reply	other threads:[~2008-05-28 14:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-28  9:41 MPTSAS problems in 2.6.26-rc2-mm1 Balbir Singh
2008-05-28  9:45 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-05-28 14:47   ` James Bottomley
2008-05-28 14:56     ` Balbir Singh [this message]

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