From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
"Américo Wang" <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
"Miles Lane" <miles.lane@gmail.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@suse.de>,
"Jesse Barnes" <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
"Len Brown" <len.brown@intel.com>, "Pavel Machek" <pavel@ucw.cz>,
"Arjan van de Ven" <arjan@infradead.org>,
"Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@infradead.org>,
"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.33-rc3 -- INFO: possible recursive locking -- (s_active){++++.+}, at: [<c10d2941>] sysfs_hash_and_remove+0x3d/0x4f
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:32:31 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m11vhw6u3k.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B4BC2D3.7070003@kernel.org> (Tejun Heo's message of "Tue\, 12 Jan 2010 09\:31\:15 +0900")
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> writes:
> On 01/11/2010 11:26 AM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
>> Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 18:13:35 -0800
>> Subject: [PATCH] sysfs: Add support for lockdep subclasses to s_active
>>
>> We have apparently valid cases where the code for a sysfs attribute
>> removes other sysfs attributes. Without support for subclasses
>> lockdep flags a possible recursive lock problem as it figures
>> the first sysfs attribute could be attempting to remove itself.
>>
>> By adding support for sysfs subclasses we can teach lockdep to
>> distinguish between different types of sysfs attributes and not
>> get confused.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
>
> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Now if I can just get a Tested-by this patch will be all set ;)
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-12 0:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-06 12:54 2.6.33-rc3 -- INFO: possible recursive locking -- (s_active){++++.+}, at: [<c10d2941>] sysfs_hash_and_remove+0x3d/0x4f Miles Lane
2010-01-06 13:36 ` Miles Lane
2010-01-10 0:10 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-01-10 8:47 ` Américo Wang
2010-01-10 8:58 ` Américo Wang
2010-01-10 17:23 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-10 18:35 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-01-11 2:26 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-11 20:18 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-01-12 0:31 ` Tejun Heo
2010-01-12 0:32 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2010-01-12 3:01 ` Dave Chinner
2010-01-12 9:22 ` Eric W. Biederman
[not found] ` <a44ae5cd1001130817v7a3ffbc9yc83d7cc701f8620@mail.gmail.com>
2010-01-13 18:37 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-13 21:11 ` Miles Lane
2010-01-12 14:44 ` Américo Wang
2010-01-14 2:47 ` Miles Lane
2010-01-14 3:09 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-14 9:13 ` Peter Zijlstra
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