Re: [PATCH] workaround minor lockdep bug triggered by mm_take_all_locks

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To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@...>

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...>, Dave Jones <davej@...>, Roland Dreier <rdreier@...>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>, David Miller <davem@...>, <jeremy@...>, <hugh@...>, <mingo@...>, <akpm@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, arjan <arjan@...>

Subject: Re: [PATCH] workaround minor lockdep bug triggered by mm_take_all_locks

Date: Monday, August 4, 2008 - 5:14 pm

Hi Andrea,

On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 10:37:22PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
quoted text>> You're so wrong it not even funny. It reports about deadlocks before
>> they happen. All it needs is to observe a lock order violation and it

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 12:09 AM, Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com> wrote:
quoted text> Now tell me how it helps to report them... It tells me the system has
> crashed and where, it's not like I couldn't figure it out by myself
> but just noticing nothing works and all cpus are spinning in some
> spinlock slow path and pressing sysrq+t/p.

Sometimes it's hard to actually trigger a deadlock condition during
development, especially if you're not developing on a big iron
machine.
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[RFC][PATCH 7/7] lockdep: spin_lock_nest_lock(), Peter Zijlstra, (Mon Aug 4, 9:03 am)

Re: [RFC][PATCH 7/7] lockdep: spin_lock_nest_lock(), Peter Zijlstra, (Thu Aug 7, 7:25 am)

Re: [RFC][PATCH 7/7] lockdep: spin_lock_nest_lock(), Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Mon Aug 4, 2:06 pm)

Re: [RFC][PATCH 7/7] lockdep: spin_lock_nest_lock(), Peter Zijlstra, (Mon Aug 4, 2:54 pm)

Re: [RFC][PATCH 7/7] lockdep: spin_lock_nest_lock(), Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Mon Aug 4, 3:26 pm)

Re: [RFC][PATCH 7/7] lockdep: spin_lock_nest_lock(), Linus Torvalds, (Mon Aug 4, 3:31 pm)

Re: [RFC][PATCH 7/7] lockdep: spin_lock_nest_lock(), Steven Rostedt, (Wed Oct 8, 11:27 am)

Re: [RFC][PATCH 7/7] lockdep: spin_lock_nest_lock(), Nick Piggin, (Wed Oct 8, 11:52 am)

Re: [RFC][PATCH 7/7] lockdep: spin_lock_nest_lock(), Steven Rostedt, (Wed Oct 8, 1:18 pm)

Re: [RFC][PATCH 7/7] lockdep: spin_lock_nest_lock(), Linus Torvalds, (Wed Oct 8, 11:43 am)

Re: [RFC][PATCH 7/7] lockdep: spin_lock_nest_lock(), Steven Rostedt, (Wed Oct 8, 12:03 pm)

Re: [RFC][PATCH 7/7] lockdep: spin_lock_nest_lock(), Linus Torvalds, (Wed Oct 8, 12:19 pm)

Re: [RFC][PATCH 7/7] lockdep: spin_lock_nest_lock(), Steven Rostedt, (Wed Oct 8, 12:53 pm)

Re: [RFC][PATCH 7/7] lockdep: spin_lock_nest_lock(), Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Mon Aug 4, 4:16 pm)

Re: [RFC][PATCH 7/7] lockdep: spin_lock_nest_lock(), Peter Zijlstra, (Mon Aug 4, 3:39 pm)

Re: [RFC][PATCH 7/7] lockdep: spin_lock_nest_lock(), Roland Dreier, (Mon Aug 4, 10:07 am)

Re: [RFC][PATCH 7/7] lockdep: spin_lock_nest_lock(), Peter Zijlstra, (Mon Aug 4, 10:19 am)

Re: [RFC][PATCH 7/7] lockdep: spin_lock_nest_lock(), Roland Dreier, (Mon Aug 4, 10:26 am)

Re: [RFC][PATCH 7/7] lockdep: spin_lock_nest_lock(), Peter Zijlstra, (Mon Aug 4, 10:32 am)

Re: [RFC][PATCH 7/7] lockdep: spin_lock_nest_lock(), Dave Jones, (Mon Aug 4, 10:53 am)

Re: [RFC][PATCH 7/7] lockdep: spin_lock_nest_lock(), Peter Zijlstra, (Mon Aug 4, 10:56 am)

Re: [RFC][PATCH 7/7] lockdep: spin_lock_nest_lock(), Andrea Arcangeli, (Mon Aug 4, 12:26 pm)

Re: [RFC][PATCH 7/7] lockdep: spin_lock_nest_lock(), Peter Zijlstra, (Mon Aug 4, 12:38 pm)

Re: [RFC][PATCH 7/7] lockdep: spin_lock_nest_lock(), David Miller, (Mon Aug 4, 5:32 pm)

Re: [RFC][PATCH 7/7] lockdep: spin_lock_nest_lock(), Andrea Arcangeli, (Mon Aug 4, 1:27 pm)

Re: [RFC][PATCH 7/7] lockdep: spin_lock_nest_lock(), Peter Zijlstra, (Mon Aug 4, 2:48 pm)

Re: [RFC][PATCH 7/7] lockdep: spin_lock_nest_lock(), Andrea Arcangeli, (Mon Aug 4, 1:46 pm)

[PATCH] workaround minor lockdep bug triggered by mm_take_al..., Andrea Arcangeli, (Mon Aug 4, 1:57 pm)

Re: [PATCH] workaround minor lockdep bug triggered by mm_tak..., Peter Zijlstra, (Mon Aug 4, 2:48 pm)

Re: [PATCH] workaround minor lockdep bug triggered by mm_tak..., Andrea Arcangeli, (Mon Aug 4, 4:15 pm)

Re: [PATCH] workaround minor lockdep bug triggered by mm_tak..., Peter Zijlstra, (Mon Aug 4, 4:37 pm)

Re: [PATCH] workaround minor lockdep bug triggered by mm_tak..., Andrea Arcangeli, (Mon Aug 4, 5:09 pm)

Re: [PATCH] workaround minor lockdep bug triggered by mm_tak..., Roland Dreier, (Mon Aug 4, 10:00 pm)

Re: [PATCH] workaround minor lockdep bug triggered by mm_tak..., Andrea Arcangeli, (Mon Aug 4, 10:18 pm)

Re: [PATCH] workaround minor lockdep bug triggered by mm_tak..., Roland Dreier, (Tue Aug 5, 8:02 am)

Re: [PATCH] workaround minor lockdep bug triggered by mm_tak..., Andrea Arcangeli, (Tue Aug 5, 8:20 am)

Re: [PATCH] workaround minor lockdep bug triggered by mm_tak..., David Miller, (Mon Aug 4, 5:57 pm)

Re: [PATCH] workaround minor lockdep bug triggered by mm_tak..., Arjan van de Ven, (Mon Aug 4, 5:27 pm)

Re: [PATCH] workaround minor lockdep bug triggered by mm_tak..., Andrea Arcangeli, (Mon Aug 4, 5:54 pm)

Re: [PATCH] workaround minor lockdep bug triggered by mm_tak..., Pekka Enberg, (Mon Aug 4, 5:14 pm)

Re: [PATCH] workaround minor lockdep bug triggered by mm_tak..., Andrea Arcangeli, (Mon Aug 4, 5:30 pm)

Re: [PATCH] workaround minor lockdep bug triggered by mm_tak..., Arjan van de Ven, (Mon Aug 4, 5:42 pm)

Re: [PATCH] workaround minor lockdep bug triggered by mm_tak..., Andrea Arcangeli, (Mon Aug 4, 6:30 pm)

Re: [PATCH] workaround minor lockdep bug triggered by mm_tak..., Arjan van de Ven, (Mon Aug 4, 7:38 pm)

Re: [PATCH] workaround minor lockdep bug triggered by mm_tak..., Andrea Arcangeli, (Mon Aug 4, 8:47 pm)

Re: [PATCH] workaround minor lockdep bug triggered by mm_tak..., Andrew Morton, (Mon Aug 4, 5:41 pm)

Re: [PATCH] workaround minor lockdep bug triggered by mm_tak..., Andrea Arcangeli, (Mon Aug 4, 6:12 pm)

Re: [PATCH] workaround minor lockdep bug triggered by mm_tak..., Roland Dreier, (Mon Aug 4, 2:56 pm)

Re: [PATCH] workaround minor lockdep bug triggered by mm_tak..., Peter Zijlstra, (Mon Aug 4, 3:05 pm)

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