Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 12:22:38 +0100
From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [bug] as_merged_requests(): possible recursive locking detected
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On Fri, Feb 01 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Feb 01 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > 
> > > * Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Are you sure this triggered with the as fixup in place? It looks like 
> > > > the same bug.
> > > 
> > > most definitely a separate bug.
> > 
> > yeah, I didn't read it carefully enough. Nikanth found the reason.
> 
> /me processes his mbox some more and sees the mails
> 
> am i right that lockdep complained about real lockup potential here? 
> (i.e. it caught a real bug) So there's no need to change anything on the 
> lockdep side, right?

Right, no bug in lockdep, the locking code and swap_io_context() are
just screwed up.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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