linux-kernel - [Patch 0/2] sysfs: fix s

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Date:	Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:01:53 -0500
From:	Amerigo Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Miles Lane <miles.lane@...il.com>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
	Amerigo Wang <amwang@...hat.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: [Patch 0/2] sysfs: fix s_active lockdep warning

Recently we met a lockdep warning from sysfs during s2ram or cpu hotplug.
As reported by several people, it is something like:

[ 6967.926563] ACPI: Preparing to enter system sleep state S3
[ 6967.956156] Disabling non-boot CPUs ...
[ 6967.970401]
[ 6967.970408] =============================================
[ 6967.970419] [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
[ 6967.970431] 2.6.33-rc2-git6 #27
[ 6967.970439] ---------------------------------------------
[ 6967.970450] pm-suspend/22147 is trying to acquire lock:
[ 6967.970460]  (s_active){++++.+}, at: [<c10d2941>]
sysfs_hash_and_remove+0x3d/0x4f
[ 6967.970493]
[ 6967.970497] but task is already holding lock:
[ 6967.970506]  (s_active){++++.+}, at: [<c10d4110>]
sysfs_get_active_two+0x16/0x36
[...]

Eric already provides a patch for this[1], but it still can't fix the
problem. I add the missing part of Eric's patch and send these two patches
together, hopefully we can fix the warning completely.

1. http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/1/10/282

Reported-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Reported-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
Reported-by: Miles Lane <miles.lane@...il.com>
Reported-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

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