linux-kernel - Re: evdev soft lockup 2.6.24-rc5-mm1

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Date:	Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:11:35 +0100
From:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
To:	Jiri Kosina <jikos@...os.cz>
CC:	Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...l.ru>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-input@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: evdev soft lockup 2.6.24-rc5-mm1

On 01/09/2008 11:11 AM, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> 
>> BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 11s! [X:2887]
> [ ... ]
>> Call Trace:
>>  [<ffffffff804e7648>] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x38/0xd0
>>  [<ffffffff804e747e>] mutex_lock+0x1e/0x30
>>  [<ffffffff8040c497>] input_release_device+0x27/0x50
>>  [<ffffffff804102aa>] evdev_ungrab+0x3a/0x50
>>  [<ffffffff804103eb>] evdev_release+0xcb/0xd0
>>  [<ffffffff80293460>] __fput+0xc0/0x230
>>  [<ffffffff802938a6>] fput+0x16/0x20
>>  [<ffffffff80290296>] filp_close+0x56/0x90
>>  [<ffffffff80291afa>] sys_close+0x9a/0xf0
>>  [<ffffffff8020ba4e>] system_call+0x7e/0x83
>> I was not able to use sysrq keys, the keyboard is obviously defunct. If 
>> this is not known, I'll try to turn lockdep on and maybe connect through 
>> ssh next time it happens.
> 
> Is this reproducible on your side? 
> 
> Running with lockdep would be really helpful, so that we possibly know who 
> is holding the other instance of dev->mutex.

Seems not to be an issue any longer, but I'll keep an eye on it.
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