Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:36:30 -0500 (EST) | From | Alan Stern <> | Subject | Re: [Patch 0/2] sysfs: fix s_active lockdep warning |
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On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, Greg KH wrote: > > > However in view of the other difficulties, it still doesn't seem > > > possible to make device mutexes work with lockdep. I suggest removing > > > Thomas's patch. > > > > Unless Thomas or anyone else thinks of something that can solve these > > problems, I will do so. > > Hmm, I have not seen those lockdep splats on -rt where we have the > mutex conversion for quite some time already. Need to look at it.
Thomas, did you ever figure out what was going on? It would be nice to know why the -rt kernels don't have any lockdep problems associated with the device mutexes.
Alan Stern
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