Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933515AbZJLWas (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:30:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933219AbZJLWar (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:30:47 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f228.google.com ([209.85.219.228]:40037 "EHLO mail-ew0-f228.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933483AbZJLWaq (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:30:46 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=V/nMc5uu6fhn0MSOUGxmK/xSnqMZTTgvgLcoLkVKyYXCyx5xcH+Fo8/iXfNJSS6EGX WTdjkPnCw7VcOkU6HqaKy95+CzziVfYYdblfqTHbG5AR+VPTF1/+2/J/hcJmfUr5Z0+m qcZ3Ds/qa17x/5JuMz0FbpUrHarbuTwrGw06Q= Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:30:06 +0200 From: Frederic Weisbecker To: Ingo Molnar Cc: LKML , Jeff Mahoney , Chris Mason , Alexander Beregalov , Laurent Riffard Subject: Re: [PATCH] kill-the-bkl/reiserfs: fix reiserfs lock to cpu_add_remove_lock dependency Message-ID: <20091012223005.GA4711@nowhere> References: <1255386309-4992-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> <1255386309-4992-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1255386309-4992-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 724 Lines: 17 On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 12:25:02AM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > This can be fixed by relaxing the reiserfs lock while creating the > workqueue. > This is fine to relax the lock here, we just keep it around to pass > through reiserfs lock checks and for paranoid reasons. Nothing related to kprobes that said... Sorry for the noise. I've already posted this patch, but it looks like these locking inversions don't want to live their own life and follow me everywhere... -- 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/