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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>,
	mingo@elte.hu, Thomas Sattler <tsattler@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] debug workqueue deadlocks with lockdep
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 10:05:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1183190728.7932.43.camel@earth4> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1183052001.4089.2.camel@johannes.berg>

On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 19:33 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> No, that's not right either, but Arjan just helped me a bit with how
> lockdep works and I think I have the right idea now. Ignore this for
> now, I'll send a new patch in a few days.

ok. But in general, this is a very nice idea!

i've Cc:-ed Oleg. Oleg, what do you think? I think we should keep all
the workqueue APIs specified in a form that makes them lockdep coverable
like Johannes did. This debug mechanism could have helped with the
recent DVB lockup that Thomas Sattler reported.

	Ingo


  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-30  8:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-27 18:40 [RFC/PATCH] debug workqueue deadlocks with lockdep Johannes Berg
2007-06-28 16:33 ` Johannes Berg
2007-06-28 17:33   ` Johannes Berg
2007-06-30  8:05     ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2007-06-30 11:46       ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-07-02  8:37         ` Johannes Berg
2007-07-02 13:03         ` Johannes Berg
2007-07-03 17:31           ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-07-03 19:42             ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-04 11:49             ` Johannes Berg
2007-07-04 12:21               ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-04 13:59                 ` Johannes Berg
2007-07-04 12:25               ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-04 12:52               ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-07-04 13:57                 ` Johannes Berg
2007-07-05  8:43                 ` Ingo Molnar

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