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From: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: jfrederich@gmail.com, dsd@laptop.org, jon.nettleton@gmail.com,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
	Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>,
	Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH 2/2] staging/olpc_docn: reorder the lock sequence to avoid potential dead lock
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 09:22:36 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <527999DC.1090206@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131105110242.GQ26669@mwanda>

Hi Dan,
On 11/05/2013 07:02 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 06:01:00PM +0800, Gu Zheng wrote:
>> The lock sequence of dcon_blank_fb(fb_info->lock ---> console_lock) is against
>> with the one of console_callback(console_lock ---> fb_info->lock), it'll
>> lead to a potential dead lock, so reorder the lock sequence of dcon_blank_fb
>> to avoid the potential dead lock.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
> 
> Relax, Greg isn't taking new patches for another three weeks because the
> merge window is open.

Got it, I just want to gain some comments about this patch.

> 
> Also what happened to [PATCH 1/2]?

It fixes the similar issue of fb subsystem.
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/3140121/

Regards,
Gu

> 
> regards,
> dan carpenter
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-06  1:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-05 10:01 [RESEND PATCH 2/2] staging/olpc_docn: reorder the lock sequence to avoid potential dead lock Gu Zheng
2013-11-05 11:02 ` Dan Carpenter
2013-11-06  1:22   ` Gu Zheng [this message]
2013-11-07 11:38     ` Dan Carpenter

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