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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Miles Lane <miles.lane@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.37-git5 -- INFO: possible irq lock inversion dependency detected
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 10:26:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1294824413.3639.17.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin4n+OQMSTdbsMBrKxhe494Uq2Db-0Fg65ao2iL@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 15:10 -0500, Miles Lane wrote:
> [ INFO: possible irq lock inversion dependency detected ]
> 2.6.37-git5 #1
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> dbus-daemon/1512 just changed the state of lock:
>  (&(&list->lock)->rlock#7){+.-...}, at: [<ffffffffa01d4ecc>]
> ieee80211_rx_handlers+0x36/0x1ae3 [mac80211]
> but this lock was taken by another, HARDIRQ-safe lock in the past:
>  (&(&priv->lock)->rlock){-.-...}
> 
> and interrupts could create inverse lock ordering between them.

Thanks Miles. I'm not sure I fully understand this trace, but I think
you can probably easily reproduce it. Would you be willing to test with
the patch on this email? I think it's related:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/62842/focus=62848

johannes


      reply	other threads:[~2011-01-12  9:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-11 20:10 2.6.37-git5 -- INFO: possible irq lock inversion dependency detected Miles Lane
2011-01-12  9:26 ` Johannes Berg [this message]

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