Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752166AbXBWJlS (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Feb 2007 04:41:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752171AbXBWJlS (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Feb 2007 04:41:18 -0500 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.172]:57988 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752166AbXBWJlR (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Feb 2007 04:41:17 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent:sender; b=DcF2hohL8u67C/DsL0kjEjWs4iaU2YppLpgyrEayQrf7t6S7pd/dRD0XDEuE6j+5+1iP5gipn1vUkrdzpW6t6d6LPCsit4Pvy4yB4dvUdgkvxjUw9WfBnMNIhS9t9wJAkG9RjP2fSm0M97Tc/7SZVD4zgLp1wjwwCd4NG7ALdUU= Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:40:03 +0000 From: Frederik Deweerdt To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: circular locking: /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches Message-ID: <20070223094003.GG4113@slug> References: <20070223063538.GA13679@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070223063538.GA13679@elte.hu> User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (Linux) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 541 Lines: 19 On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 07:35:38AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > Andrew, > > i just got the lockdep warning below when doing: > > echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches > > is this a known quirk in the drop_caches code? > This is known, yes: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/4/19 Regards, Frederik - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/