Re: 2.6.24-rc6: possible recursive locking detected

Davide Libenzi
2008-01-07T21:36:07Z

On Sun, 6 Jan 2008, Christian Kujau wrote:

> 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.

There's no need to reproduce it. It's there, it's among us ;)

- Davide