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Message-ID: <20130312161314.GA5963@dhcp22.suse.cz>
Date:	Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:13:14 +0100
From:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	cgroups <cgroups@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] device: separate all subsys mutexes (was: Re: [BUG]
 potential deadlock led by cpu_hotplug lock (memcg involved))

On Tue 12-03-13 16:28:25, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-03-12 at 14:05 +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > @@ -111,17 +111,17 @@ struct bus_type {
> >         struct iommu_ops *iommu_ops;
> >  
> >         struct subsys_private *p;
> > +       struct lock_class_key __key;
> >  };
> 
> Is struct bus_type constrained to static storage or can people go an
> allocate this stuff dynamically?

All of them should be static, at least this is what my cscope says. I
might have missed something of course - I am not very familiar with this
area to be 100% sure.

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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