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From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] lockdep: Don't only check recursive read locks once in a sequence
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:57:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091120005743.GJ4967@nowhere> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1258650828.3931.437.camel@laptop>

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 06:13:48PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 16:55 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > And btw I
> > don't understand why rwsem read locks are not considered as
> > recursive in lockdep. 
> 
> Because they're not.
> 
> rwsems are FIFO fair, so a double read can deadlock when there's a
> pending writer inbetween.
> 


Aah ok. That's the subtle thing I was missing :)

Thanks.


      reply	other threads:[~2009-11-20  0:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-18  1:06 [PATCH 0/2] lockdep: Improvements for rwlocks dependency inversion detection Frederic Weisbecker
2009-11-18  1:06 ` [PATCH 1/2] lockdep: Include recursive read-locks dependencies in the tree Frederic Weisbecker
2009-11-18 10:26   ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-11-19 16:07     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-11-18  1:06 ` [PATCH 2/2] lockdep: Don't only check recursive read locks once in a sequence Frederic Weisbecker
2009-11-18  9:43   ` Lai Jiangshan
2009-11-19 15:55     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-11-19 17:13       ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-11-20  0:57         ` Frederic Weisbecker [this message]

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