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Subject: Re: [PATCH] avr32: fix deadlock when reading clock list in debugfs
From: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com>
To: Ole Henrik Jahren <olehenja@alumni.ntnu.no>
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On Sun, 2011-03-06 at 20:42 +0100, Ole Henrik Jahren wrote: 
> When writing out /sys/kernel/debug/at32ap_clk, clock list lock is being
> held while clk_get() is called. clk_get() attempts to take the same
> lock, which results in deadlock. Introduce and call lock free version,
> __clk_get(), instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ole Henrik Jahren <olehenja@alumni.ntnu.no>
> Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com>

Thanks for this fix, added to the AVR32 tree.

Signed-off-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com>

<snipp patch>

-- 
Hans-Christian Egtvedt

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