Re: [Patch 0/2] sysfs: fix s_active lockdep warning

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 10:21 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 07:14:20PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 10:10 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 06:57:28PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 06:22 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > Heh, this whole mess is the very reason we didn't add lockdep support to
> > > > > the driver core.  Nested devices that all look alike from the driver
> > > > > core, are really different objects and the locking lifetimes are
> > > > > separate, but lockdep can't see that. 
> > > > 
> > > > And here I through Alan Stern had a handle on making the driver core
> > > > play nice.
> > > 
> > > It's not the driver core that is the issue here, it's that lockdep can't
> > > handle the tree structure of devices that is represented in the kernel.
> > > 
> > > I don't think it is a driver core problem, but rather, a lockdep issue.
> > 
> > Right, we've been over that and I think I added enough lockdep
> > annotations to make it work for the device tree. At least, Alan and I
> > seemed to agree on that last time we talked about it.
> 
> Ah, I didn't realize that, very nice.
> 
> If so, then this sysfs lock stuff should be able to use those
> annotations and we shouldn't have this issue, right?

I really wouldn't know, I've not yet looked at sysfs to see what the
particular issue is. But possibly, if you say the problem space is
similar.