linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 7/7] rcu: Quiet RCU-lockdep warnings involving interrupt disabling

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Date:	Tue, 6 Dec 2011 08:01:54 -0800
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, y@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:	Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	mingo@...e.hu, laijs@...fujitsu.com, dipankar@...ibm.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca,
	josh@...htriplett.org, niv@...ibm.com, tglx@...utronix.de,
	rostedt@...dmis.org, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu, dhowells@...hat.com,
	eric.dumazet@...il.com, darren@...art.com, patches@...aro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 7/7] rcu: Quiet RCU-lockdep warnings
 involving interrupt disabling

On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 10:52:32AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-12-06 at 09:26 +0800, Yong Zhang wrote:
> 
> > Yeah, because we call might_sleep() in rt_mutex_lock() unconditionally.
> > But in this case the 'BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context
> > at *' is obviously false positive.
> 
> Why can't this mutex acquisition not block?

Because its purpose in life is to pass its priority on to the lock
holder.

							Thanx, Paul

> > Maybe we could teach might_sleep() about this special case?
> 
> Sounds horrid.
> 

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