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SubjectRe: 2.6.18-git21, possible recursive locking in kseriod ends up in DWARF2 unwinder stuck
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On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 16:34 -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On 10/4/06, Jiri Kosina <jikos@jikos.cz> wrote:
> > On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Alessandro Suardi wrote:
> >
> > > Non-fatal (box is still alive and apparently well) on boot,
> > > FC5-uptodate on a Dell Latitude C640. From the dmesg ring:
> >
> > > [ 8.680000] =============================================
> > > [ 8.680000] [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
> > > [ 8.680000] 2.6.18-git21 #1
> > > [ 8.680000] ---------------------------------------------
> > > [ 8.680000] kseriod/163 is trying to acquire lock:
> > > [ 8.680000] (&ps2dev->cmd_mutex/1){--..}, at: [<c03198c3>]
> > > ps2_command+0x89/0x358
> >
> > Me and Peter Zijlstra have already submitted patches to fix this - read
> > the thread at
> > http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2006-09/msg07416.html
> >
> > I don't know the reason why these have not yet been merged into the input
> > tree. Dmitry?
> >
>
> Sorry, was a little busy.
>
> I tested the patches and they work. Couple of comments:
>
> - register_lock_class is marked as inline but now has 2 call sites and
> is relatively big - might want to remove "inline"
> - how about adding lockdep_set_subclass() to avoid littering source
> with struct lock_class_key when we only want to tweak subclass? For
> that we might want export register_lock_class and hide it behind a
> #define...
>

or something like this:

#define concat_i(a) #a
#define concat(a,b) concat_i(a ## b)

#define lockdep_set_subclass(lock, subclass) \
({ static struct lock_key_class __key; \
lockdep_init_map(&(lock)->dep_map, concat(lock, subclass), \
&__key, subclass); })

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