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Message-ID: <20080317153314.GD5578@one.firstfloor.org>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:33:15 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To: Adam Litke <agl@...ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
pj@....com, linux-mm@...ck.org, nickpiggin@...oo.com.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [0/18] GB pages hugetlb support
> I bet copy_hugetlb_page_range() is causing your complaints. It takes
> the dest_mm->page_table_lock followed by src_mm->page_table_lock inside
> a loop and hasn't yet been converted to call spin_lock_nested(). A
> harmless false positive.
Yes. Looking at the warning I'm not sure why lockdep doesn't filter
it out automatically. I cannot think of a legitimate case where
a "possible recursive lock" with different lock addresses would be
a genuine bug.
So instead of a false positive, it's more like a "always false" :)
>
> > - hugemmap04 from LTP fails. Cause unknown currently
>
> I am not sure how well LTP is tracking mainline development in this
> area. How do these patches do with the libhugetlbfs test suite? We are
I wasn't aware of that one.
-Andi
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