Re: 2.6.24-rc6: possible recursive locking detected

Christian Kujau
2008-01-06T00:20:42Z

On Sat, 5 Jan 2008, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> A solution may be to move the call to ep_poll_safewake() (that'd become a
> simple wake_up()) inside a tasklet or whatever is today trendy for delayed
> work. But his kinda scares me to be honest, since epoll has already a
> bunch of places where it could be asynchronously hit (plus performance
> regression will need to be verified).

Although I'm not able to reproduce this one right now, I'm happy to test
any patches you guys come up with.

Thanks for your time,
Christian.
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Yes, yes, its called a design limitation