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

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Message-ID: <4B6F7FD0.9010500@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:06:56 +0800
From:	Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
To:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
CC:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Miles Lane <miles.lane@...il.com>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch 0/2] sysfs: fix s_active lockdep warning

Alan Stern wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Feb 2010, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
>> Right, so this device stuff is much more complicated than I was led to
>> believe ;-)
> 
> Haven't I told you all along that tree-structured locking is
> complicated?  :-)
> 
>> So the device core doesn't know, so how are you guys making sure there
>> really are no deadlocks hidden in there somewhere?
> 
> In the code I've seen, deadlocks are avoided by always taking the locks
> in the same order.  But who knows?  Maybe there _are_ some hidden
> deadlocks lurking.  For now we can't rely on lockdep to find them,
> though, because it gets sidetracked by all the false positives.
> 

This is almost the same with the sysfs case...

Thanks.
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