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SubjectRe: console: lockup on boot
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On Thu, 2014-06-12 at 10:26 +0200, Jan Kara wrote: 
> On Wed 11-06-14 23:07:04, Sasha Levin wrote:

> > The first patch fixed it (I assumed that there's no need to try the second).
> Good. So that shows that it is the increased lockdep coverage which is
> causing problems - with my patch, lockdep is able to identify some problem
> because console drivers are now called with lockdep enabled. But because
> the problem was found in some difficult context, lockdep just hung the
> machine when trying to report it... Sadly the stacktraces you posted don't
> tell us what lockdep found.
>
> Adding Peter Zijlstra to CC. Peter, any idea how lockdep could report
> problems when holding logbuf_lock? One possibility would be to extend
> logbuf_cpu recursion logic to every holder of logbuf_lock. That will at
> least avoid the spinlock recursion killing the machine but we won't be able
> to see what lockdep found...

Could tell lockdep to use trace_printk().



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