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From: "Catalin Marinas" <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>
To: "Michal Piotrowski" <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.18-rc4 00/10] Kernel memory leak detector 0.9
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On 18/08/06, Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com> wrote:
> Lockdep still detects this bug
>
> =======================================================
> [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
> -------------------------------------------------------
> events/0/8 is trying to acquire lock:
>  (memleak_lock){++..}, at: [<c0176a11>] memleak_free+0x9e/0x16f
>
> but task is already holding lock:
>  (&parent->list_lock){++..}, at: [<c0174f29>] drain_array+0x49/0xad
>
> which lock already depends on the new lock.
> etc.

Do you have the complete dmesg output? There should be a different
path which I missed (I didn't get this yestarday but I haven't tried
with the latest patch I sent to you today).

-- 
Catalin
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