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Subjectcpu hotplug and lockdep (was: Re: [tip:core/ipi] generic-ipi: eliminate spurious pointlessWARN_ON()s)
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On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 19:52 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 19:24 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Now back to my regularly scheduled hotunplug challenges starting
> > > with getting lockdep to warn about the dead locks.
>
> http://programming.kicks-ass.net/kernel-patches/cpu-hotplug/
>
> The recursive read code needs more work..

You'll find some network softirq inversion 'fixes' there, but those are
false, (soft)irq recursion isn't a problem for recursive read locks, but
of course only as long as writes (and thereby all nesting exclusive
locks) are irq-safe so as to not create write in read deadlocks.

Just never gotten around to actually implementing that, ego also offered
to look at that at one point, but I guess he didn't get around to it
either ;-)



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