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From: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com>
To: Ole Henrik Jahren <olehenja@alumni.ntnu.no>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] avr32: fix deadlock when reading clock list in debugfs
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:17:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1302700665.10549.4.camel@hcegtvedt> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110306194239.GA9342@siv.localdomain>

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


  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-13 13:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-06 19:42 Ole Henrik Jahren
2011-04-13 13:17 ` Hans-Christian Egtvedt [this message]
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2010-09-12 16:26 Ole Henrik Jahren

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