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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Paul Drynoff <pauldrynoff@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-2.6.17-mm6: strange kobject message
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 11:29:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1152264552.3111.35.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060707022420.6f58b58c.akpm@osdl.org>

On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 02:24 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

> hm. 
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.17/2.6.17-mm6/broken-out/lockdep-annotate-8390c-disable_irq.patch
> didn't work.

-mm6 only had part 1; you also have part 2 now which should fix this one

> We've seen this reported a couple of times before.  It could be a race in
> the tty layer where a newly-added vc has the same index as a going-away
> one which still has its sysfs file.  Or it could be something else :(

that'd be a bug in the tty layer; the VC shouldn't be allowed to go away
until the sysfs file is gone (basic sysfs refcounting rules), and any
person keeping such a file open can delay that.
Now I can believe the tty layer having, ehm, suboptimal
refcounting/locking; I believe Alan is still trying to get it sane....


  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-07  9:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-07  8:59 Paul Drynoff
2006-07-07  9:07 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-07  9:24 ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-07  9:29   ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2006-07-07  9:38     ` Andrew Morton

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