Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [2.6.33-rc5] Weird deadlock when shutting down | From | Johannes Berg <> | Date | Sat, 20 Feb 2010 09:45:30 +0100 |
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On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 12:46 +0800, Américo Wang wrote:
> This is a real deadlock case found by lockdep added to s_active. > > The problem is that we did kobject_put(&data->kobj) while holding > policy_rwsem > which is used to protect 'data'. It is not so easy to fix this, > probably we need to do more work on cpufreq code.
But it doesn't make sense that it's just an existing real deadlock that is now found -- it never occurred previously!
Anyway, I'll try your patch, thanks for that.
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