From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-testers@vger.kernel.org,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>,
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.28-rc2-mm1: possible circular locking
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:54:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081029145446.081141b4@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081029135840.0a50e19c.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:58:40 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> We've been calling schedule_on_each_cpu() from within
> lru_add_drain_all() for ages. What changed to cause all this
> to start happening?
what started to get these out of the weed is that copy_*_user() is now
annotated to (potentially) take the mmap sem (which it does if there's
a fault)...
previously you had to actually fault to get the lock dependency noticed.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-29 21:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-29 6:38 2.6.28-rc2-mm1 Andrew Morton
2008-10-29 7:45 ` [PATCH -mm] spi: fix compile error Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
2008-10-29 10:28 ` [BUILD-FAILURE] 2.6.28-rc2-mm1 - build breaks on powerpc with !GENERIC_BUG Kamalesh Babulal
2008-10-29 20:46 ` 2.6.28-rc2-mm1: possible circular locking Mariusz Kozlowski
2008-10-29 20:58 ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-29 21:54 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2008-10-31 3:21 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-10-29 22:58 ` 2.6.28-rc2-mm1: Build failure on fs/quota.o Zan Lynx
2008-10-29 23:16 ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-30 5:32 ` Kamalesh Babulal
2008-10-30 16:46 ` Zan Lynx
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