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SubjectRe: lockdep max numbers (was Re: Crashes during boot on 2.6.30 / 2.6.31-rc, random programs)
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On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 17:31 +0800, Amerigo Wang wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 09:30:23PM +0100, Joao Correia wrote:
> >Hello again
> >
> >Looks like this just opened the lid on some other limits. I just hit
> >another thing, which hadn't shown up before i made the changes, but
> >looks like its just another limit thats too low. This one is harder to
> >reproduce tho.
> >
> >Jun 30 21:35:03 hightech kernel: BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS too low!
> >Jun 30 21:35:03 hightech kernel: turning off the locking correctness validator.
> >Jun 30 21:35:03 hightech kernel: Pid: 9379, comm: qemu-kvm Not tainted
>
>
> Similar problem...
>
> Peter? Would like to increase these numbers?

> >2.6.30-wl #3

> >Jun 30 21:35:03 hightech kernel: [<c05d0c66>] debug_dma_map_sg+0xe1/0x147

We recently fixed the dma debug stuff to require less lockdep resources,
Joerg might know if that made it into .30.

> >>>So i dug a little on the source and changed
> >>>
> >>>include/linux/sched.h
> >>>
> >>># define MAX_LOCK_DEPTH 48UL
> >>>
> >>>to
> >>>
> >>># define MAX_LOCK_DEPTH 96UL

> >> Let's Cc: Peter to see if he would like to change this number...
> >>
> >> Peter?

I really don't think we want to raise this, I mean, holding more that 48
locks at the same time is somewhat pushing it, don't you think?

Where do you run into this limit?



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