linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] IB/ehca: Fix lockdep failures for shca_list

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Date:	Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:02:27 +0100
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Joachim Fenkes <fenkes@...ibm.com>
Cc:	LinuxPPC-Dev <linuxppc-dev@...abs.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	OF-General <general@...ts.openfabrics.org>,
	Roland Dreier <rolandd@...co.com>,
	OF-EWG <ewg@...ts.openfabrics.org>,
	Stefan Roscher <stefan.roscher@...ibm.com>,
	Christoph Raisch <raisch@...ibm.com>,
	Hoang-Nam Nguyen <hnguyen@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IB/ehca: Fix lockdep failures for shca_list_lock

On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 16:37 +0100, Joachim Fenkes wrote:

> +	u64 flags;

> -	spin_lock(&shca_list_lock);
> +	spin_lock_irqsave(&shca_list_lock, flags);

That's wrong and I think will give a warning on all machines where
u64 != unsigned long. Might not particularly matter in this case.

Also, generally it seems wrong to say "fix lockdep failure" when the
patch really fixes a bug that lockdep happened to find.

johannes

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