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From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lockdep: fix ide/proc interaction
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 14:37:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061019123742.GE3296@ff.dom.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1161255956.3036.84.camel@taijtu>

On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 01:05:56PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 10:40 +0200, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
...
> > But now:
> > >  (proc_subdir_lock){--..}, at: [<c04a33b0>] remove_proc_entry+0x40/0x191
> > 
> > is taken here with irqs and bhs enabled (btw. this: {--..} looks
> > as if it wasn't called from here with spin_lock_irqsave?) 
> > IMHO it is hard to believe this lock isn't anywhere used in
> > hard or soft irq context so probably local_irq_disable/enable
> > or local_bh_disable/enable is needed around this.
> 
> it really isnt, check fs/proc/{generic,proc_devtree}.c

I did it - but I hope all places were checked and 
remove_proc_entry (or other with proc_subdir_lock)
is not used by any timer etc. 

Sorry for false alarm,

Regards,

Jarek P.

      reply	other threads:[~2006-10-19 12:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-18 18:49 [PATCH] lockdep: fix ide/proc interaction Peter Zijlstra
2006-10-19  8:40 ` Jarek Poplawski
2006-10-19 11:05   ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-10-19 12:37     ` Jarek Poplawski [this message]

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