From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423529AbWJaR50 (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:57:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423715AbWJaR50 (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:57:26 -0500 Received: from rtr.ca ([64.26.128.89]:47372 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423529AbWJaR5Z (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:57:25 -0500 Message-ID: <45478E82.3030808@rtr.ca> Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:57:22 -0500 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Linux Kernel , Andrew Morton , Takashi Iwai , Frederik Deweerdt Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc3-git7: BUG: mutex warning sysfs_dir_open References: <454785B7.3040600@rtr.ca> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Is this somewhat reproducible? Just the one occurance of it, with rc3-git7. I've now moved on to -rc4. > HOWEVER, google does find a clue. We've had reports of something somewhat > similar before: googling for "__mutex_lock_slowpath" and "sysfs_dir_open" > shows for example > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/8/18/72 > > where the thread ended up first blaming sound, but then deciding that > maybe it was DRM-related. However, you don't seem to have any AGP or DRM > support at all, so maybe it really _is_ a sound problem. > > Mark - can you verify that you don't have any DRM support in your kernel? # CONFIG_DRM is not set (but I'm about to change that!). Cheers