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SubjectRe: 2.6.28-rc2-mm1: possible circular locking
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:58:40 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> We've been calling schedule_on_each_cpu() from within
> lru_add_drain_all() for ages. What changed to cause all this
> to start happening?

what started to get these out of the weed is that copy_*_user() is now
annotated to (potentially) take the mmap sem (which it does if there's
a fault)...
previously you had to actually fault to get the lock dependency noticed.

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