linux-kernel - Re: inconsistent lock state message on 2.6.36.4 stable release

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Message-ID: <20110302202515.GA16963@suse.de>
Date:	Wed, 2 Mar 2011 15:25:15 -0500
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	"Nadolski, Edmund" <edmund.nadolski@...el.com>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Williams, Dan J" <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	"mel@....ul.ie" <mel@....ul.ie>
Subject: Re: inconsistent lock state message on 2.6.36.4 stable release

On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 01:19:48PM -0700, Nadolski, Edmund wrote:
> With v2.6.36.4 stable release and CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING set, I notice
> the below message during boot (full dmesg attached):

2.6.36 is now "end of life" so there's really no need to test, debug, or
report problems here as there's nothing we can do about it.

> Per git bisect, it seems to have originated with this commit:
> 
> $ git bisect good
> c04eb9683fbb6374275309b859fcbf02e1db2c78 is the first bad commit
> commit c04eb9683fbb6374275309b859fcbf02e1db2c78
> Author: Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
> Date:   Thu Jan 13 15:45:41 2011 -0800
> 
>     mm: page allocator: adjust the per-cpu counter threshold when memory is low
> 
>     commit 88f5acf88ae6a9778f6d25d0d5d7ec2d57764a97 upstream.
> 
> The message goes away after I do a git revert on this commit. I've
> also seen this message on 2.6.37.2, but not on 2.6.38-rc7.

Care to figure out what commit fixed this so that we can backport it to
the .37-stable kernel?

git bisect can be used to do this as well.

thanks,

greg k-h
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