Re: 2.6.17-rc6-mm1 -- BUG: possible circular locking deadlock detected!

Ingo Molnar
2006-06-12T10:57:19Z

* Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> > below i've attached a cleaned up version of my NTFS annotations so far.
> > I think they are pretty straightforward and nonintrusive - for
> > !CONFIG_LOCKDEP they add zero changes to ntfs.ko. Most of the linecount
> > of the patch comes from comments - so i think we might even consider
> > this a "document locking rules" patch :-)
>
> Thanks, looks great! Can I leave it to you to keep it as part of the
> lock validator patches so it gets into -mm with them and later makes
> it into the stock kernel with them?

sure!

> If you want, feel free to add:
>
> Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
>
> To the patch...

thanks - added.

If anyone wants to try the NTFS related lock-validator fixes, they are
included in the combo patch:

http://redhat.com/~mingo/lockdep-patches/lockdep-combo-2.6.17-rc6-mm2.patch

which goes ontop of 2.6.17-rc6-mm2.

Ingo