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From: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
To: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
Cc: Maciej Rutecki <maciej.rutecki@gmail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION][3.8.-rc1][ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 08:03:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1356613404.16896.4.camel@thor.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121227083618.GA9775@S2101-09.ap.freescale.net>

On Thu, 2012-12-27 at 16:36 +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 10:34:39AM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
> > It seems that I'm running into the same locking issue.  My setup is:
> > 
> > - i.MX28 (ARM)
> > - v3.8-rc1
> > - mxs_defconfig
>   - The warning is seen when LCD is blanking
> > 
> 
> The warning disappears after reverting patch daee779 (console: implement
> lockdep support for console_lock).  Is it suggesting that the mxs
> frame buffer driver (drivers/video/mxsfb.c) is doing something bad?
> 
> Shawn
> 
> > 
> > [  602.229899] ======================================================
> > [  602.229905] [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
> > [  602.229926] 3.8.0-rc1-00003-gde4ae7f #767 Not tainted
> > [  602.229933] -------------------------------------------------------
> > [  602.229951] kworker/0:1/21 is trying to acquire lock:
> > [  602.230037]  ((fb_notifier_list).rwsem){.+.+.+}, at: [<c0041f34>] __blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x2c/0x60

You want this patch https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1757061/



  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-27 13:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-22 15:28 Maciej Rutecki
2012-12-23 21:34 ` Christian Kujau
2012-12-26  8:18   ` Li Zhong
2013-01-04  4:31   ` Christian Kujau
2012-12-26  2:34 ` Shawn Guo
2012-12-27  8:36   ` Shawn Guo
2012-12-27 13:03     ` Peter Hurley [this message]
2012-12-28 11:45       ` Shawn Guo

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