linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] regulator: recursive locking detected

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Date:	Sat, 2 Apr 2011 10:12:03 +0900
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To:	Robert Rosengren <robert.rosengren@...ricsson.com>
Cc:	Liam Girdwood <lrg@...mlogic.co.uk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Bengt Jonsson <bengt.g.jonsson@...ricsson.com>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regulator: recursive locking detected

On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 12:04:17PM +0200, Robert Rosengren wrote:
> "possible recursive locking detected"-warnings are issued when a
> regulator has specified supply regulator. Both when enabling and
> disabling regulators uses recursive call chains for notify the supply
> regulators. This is due to locking mutexes of the same lock class,
> i.e. the locks reside in the regulator_dev struct.

There's actually a race here reported by David Brown in the past week
when working with supplies so the lock warning is probably a real issue
which should be fixed rather than overriding the warning.  Search the
list for the past week or so for the details.

> +/* locks held by regulator_enable()
> + * lock_sublevel should always be 0, only used for recursive calls.
> + */
> +static int _regulator_enable(struct regulator_dev *rdev,
> +				int lock_sublevel)

This comment is inaccurate (and if it were then obviously sublevel
wouldn't be needed).
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