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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Intel Graphics Development <intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org>,
	DRI Development <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
	Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] [RESEND] console: implement lockdep support for console_lock
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 14:17:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1348489027.11847.53.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1347923013-4253-2-git-send-email-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>

On Tue, 2012-09-18 at 01:03 +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> - In the printk code there's a special trylock, only used to kick off
>   the logbuffer printk'ing in console_unlock. But all that happens
>   while lockdep is disable (since printk does a few other evil
>   tricks). So no issue there, either. 

Not particularly evil, just plain broken.

See this series:

  http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=132446644123326&w=2

In particular see patches 1-4. The problem with lockdep is that lockdep
uses printk and printk's recursion stuff is utterly broken.

Console drivers being on crack simply doesn't help :-) Note that I would
never recommend drm/ksm to anybody who really cares about their console
output.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-09-24 12:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-17 23:03 [PATCH 1/2] [RESEND] console: use might_sleep in console_lock Daniel Vetter
2012-09-17 23:03 ` [PATCH 2/2] [RESEND] console: implement lockdep support for console_lock Daniel Vetter
2012-09-18  7:33   ` Jani Nikula
2012-09-19  7:30     ` Daniel Vetter
2012-09-22 17:52     ` [PATCH] " Daniel Vetter
2012-09-22 20:06       ` [Intel-gfx] " Greg KH
2012-09-24 11:36         ` Daniel Vetter
2012-10-02 12:56         ` Daniel Vetter
2012-10-02 13:28           ` Greg KH
2012-10-02 13:31             ` Daniel Vetter
2012-09-24 12:17   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2012-09-24 12:24     ` [PATCH 2/2] [RESEND] " Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-24 12:54       ` Daniel Vetter
2012-09-24 13:10         ` Peter Zijlstra

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