Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 12 Dec 2009 09:16:43 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PATCH] TTY patches for 2.6.33-git |
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On Sat, 12 Dec 2009, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:10:32 +0100 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote: > > > > > * Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > > > > Seems to be quite .config-dependent. > > > > My theory is that it's a race and that it's thus timing dependent. TTY > > SMP details get stressed most during a particular point during bootup, > > when all the mingetty's are starting up all at once and race with each > > other. > > > > If you are lucky to not hit the bug then, then the likelyhood is much > > lower later on. > > > > It would be nice if Alan posted his TTY stress-testing code. It could > > potentially make this bug bisectable. > > > > I'm surprised that lockdep didn't notice that ab/ba I thought I saw. > Maybe the do_tty_hangup()->tty_fasync() never happens.
The kernel lock cannot have any ABBA deadlocks.
If somebody blocks on another lock (after getting the kernel lock), the kernel lock will be dropped. So no ABBA.
Linus
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