linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] debugobjects: fix lockdep warning

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Date:	Sun, 15 Jun 2008 13:46:21 +0200
From:	"Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@...il.com>
To:	"Daniel J Blueman" <daniel.blueman@...il.com>
Cc:	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"Christoph Lameter" <clameter@....com>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] debugobjects: fix lockdep warning

On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Daniel J Blueman
<daniel.blueman@...il.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 11:58 PM, Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I don't know whether this is truly the Right Fix; if it isn't, feel free
>> to re-use my commit template for when the RF appears... ;-)
>>
>> Daniel, is there any chance you can try it out? Thanks.
>
> I get a warning [1] about pool-lock being IRQ-unsafe as-is.
> Additionally promoting pool_lock to be IRQ-safe [2] resolves the
> issue, but this may not be desired. Ping me for further tests and
> thanks!

Ah, yes. Thanks for testing! I thought it might introduce some other
badness. I can't really comment on your new changes (I am not sure
what the implications are exactly), but if it fixes the regression,
then it sounds correct :-)

(I also think this needs Thomas's SOB rather than mine. I am not sure
he's fine with kicking out the retry code :-P)


Vegard

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