From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754201Ab3AaFiJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:38:09 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.19.201]:50866 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750956Ab3AaFiG (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:38:06 -0500 Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 06:40:02 +0100 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Russell King , Dave Airlie , Daniel Vetter , Andrew Morton , Florian Tobias Schandinat , "linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , dri-devel Subject: Re: BUG: circular locking dependency detected Message-ID: <20130131054002.GA3697@kroah.com> References: <20130130200648.GA13298@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20130130215211.GA28418@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20130130221946.GA14801@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20130131001339.GC14801@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:26:53AM +1100, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Russell King wrote: > > > > Which may or may not be a good thing depending how you look at it; it > > means that once your kernel blanks, you get a lockdep dump. At that > > point you lose lockdep checking for everything else because lockdep > > disables itself after the first dump. > > Fair enough, we may want to revert the lockdep checking for > console_lock, and make re-enabling it part of the patch-series that > fixes the locking. > > Daniel/Dave? Does that sound reasonable? Reverting the patch is fine with me. Just let me know so I can queue it up again for 3.9. thanks, greg k-h