linux-kernel - Re: Spinlock debugging

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Date:	Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:36:10 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	"Andrew Bird (Sphere Systems)" <ajb@...eresystems.co.uk>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Spinlock debugging

Ar Llu, 2006-09-11 am 16:32 +0100, ysgrifennodd Andrew Bird (Sphere
Systems):
> will be lost. But if I comment out the line that tells the tty layer that 
> it's implemented, I end up with a BUG - spinlock recursion. Can anybody tell 
> me how to interpret the output?

Looks like your driver calls flush_to_ldisc with low latency set and
then can't handle the flush_to_ldisc causing n_tty to call back into the
write method for flow control.

Alan

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