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Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 10:13:21 +0800 From: Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>, inux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> Subject: Re: [BUG?] recursive locking in acpi_bus_register_driver On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 4:48 AM, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote: > On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 15:58:07 +0900 > Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com> wrote: > >> Is this a known bug or my hardware is bad ? >> I use mmotm 2010-02-03-20-09. >> >> I didn't have a problem in 2.6.32. >> Unfortunately I can't test it at next week. >> I hope this problem can be reproduced easily. >> > > It would be useful if you could work out whether this bug is only in > -mm, or is in linux-next or is in mainline, please. > > Probably it's in linux-next, and it might be due to driver core changes > or acpi changes. > Due the convert from semphore to mutex in driver core code, I think. This is a known issue. > Either way, we should get this weeded out lest the offending code turns > up in 2.6.34-rc1. Alan Stern is working on this, the patch he provided still needs to be discussed, I think. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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