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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Subject: Re: MAX_LOCKDEP_SUBCLASSES too low in 2.6.23-rc7-mm1
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:37:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070924183759.085d901c@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070924160358.GA19736@Krystal>

On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:03:58 -0400 Mathieu Desnoyers
<mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> wrote:

> Hi Ingo,
> 
> I got the following printk when booting 2.6.23-rc7-mm1 :
> 
> BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_SUBCLASSES too low!
> turning off the locking correctness validator.
> 
> Is it known/correct situation ?

Known, bug in r/o mounts code:

> static void lock_and_coalesce_cpu_mnt_writer_counts(void)
> {
> 	int cpu;
> 	struct mnt_writer *cpu_writer;
> 
> 	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
> 		cpu_writer = &per_cpu(mnt_writers, cpu);
> 		spin_lock_nested(&cpu_writer->lock, 42);
> 		                                   ^^^^
> 
> What the heck is going on? Given that MAX_LOCKDEP_SUBCLASSES is only 8,
> this reliably turns off lockdep at boot.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-24 16:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-24 16:03 MAX_LOCKDEP_SUBCLASSES too low in 2.6.23-rc7-mm1 Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-09-24 16:37 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2007-09-24 16:59   ` Mathieu Desnoyers

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