linux-kernel - Re: SLUB/debugobjects locking (Re: 2.6.27-rc4-git1: Reported regressions from 2.6.26)

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Date:	Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:42:26 +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>,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Adrian Bunk" <bunk@...nel.org>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Natalie Protasevich" <protasnb@...il.com>,
	"Kernel Testers List" <kernel-testers@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: SLUB/debugobjects locking (Re: 2.6.27-rc4-git1: Reported regressions from 2.6.26)

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 12:14 AM, Daniel J Blueman
<daniel.blueman@...il.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 8:44 PM, Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com> wrote:
>> I tried your suggestion of promoting the lock to irq-safe, and it
>> fixed the warning for me (didn't get or look for deadlocks yet, but it
>> seems likely that it is caused by the same thing?), the patch is
>> attached for reference.
>>
>> I also don't know if this is the best fix, but I also don't have any
>> other (better) suggestions.
>>
>> Others are welcome to pick it up from here...
>
> The solution looks like is needs to get the lock ordering correct
> w.r.t. SLUB, as we get this, alas:
>
> =======================================================
> [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
> 2.6.27-rc4-229c-debug #1

Hm. Is this with my first patch + the one in the e-mail you replied
to? It was intended to be a delta patch on top of my first one.

That would be the one in

    http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121946972307110&w=4

plus the one in

    http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121969394110327&w=1

Thanks for testing and sorry for the confusion. (Maybe I just confused
myself. Please let me know either way.)


Vegard

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