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From: "Bart Van Assche" <bart.vanassche@gmail.com>
To: "Peter Zijlstra" <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: ego@in.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Zdenek Kabelac" <zdenek.kabelac@gmail.com>,
	"Oleg Nesterov" <oleg@tv-sign.ru>,
	"Heiko Carstens" <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>,
	"Srivatsa Vaddagiri" <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] lockdep: fix recursive read lock validation
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:29:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e2e108260804290929l3c7a6a07nddc18512abb9e6ed@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1209485739.13978.96.camel@twins>

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote:
>
>  > Or: whether or not to allow a sequence like "rlock(a); rlock(b);
>  > runlock(b); runlock(a); rlock(b); rlock(a);" is something we can
>  > choose. We do not have to forbid this sequence -- we can choose
>  > whether or not we allow this sequence.
>
>  I'm utterly confused now; I never argued that it would get deadlocks;
>  and I said I choose to not allow it from a lockdep pov. What else do you
>  want?

So we both agree that the statement in the original e-mail (by Gautham
R Shenoy) is wrong ? The original e-mail stated that obtaining reader
locks in an inconsistent order is wrong.

Bart.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-29 16:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-29 12:56 [PATCH 0/8] CPU-Hotplug: Fix CPU-Hotplug <--> cpufreq locking dependency Gautham R Shenoy
2008-04-29 12:57 ` [PATCH 1/8] lockdep: fix recursive read lock validation Gautham R Shenoy
2008-04-29 13:16   ` Bart Van Assche
2008-04-29 14:57     ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-04-29 15:03       ` Bart Van Assche
2008-04-29 15:15         ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-04-29 16:03           ` Bart Van Assche
2008-04-29 16:15             ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-04-29 16:29               ` Bart Van Assche [this message]
2008-04-29 17:04                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-04-29 17:45                   ` Bart Van Assche
2008-04-29 17:58                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-04-29 12:58 ` [PATCH 2/8] lockdep: reader-in-writer recursion Gautham R Shenoy
2008-04-29 13:00 ` [PATCH 3/8] lockdep: fix fib_hash softirq inversion Gautham R Shenoy
2008-04-29 14:45   ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-04-29 13:01 ` [PATCH 4/8] net: af_netlink: deadlock Gautham R Shenoy
2008-04-29 13:19   ` Hans Reiser, reiserfs developer linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2008-04-29 13:02 ` [PATCH 5/8] cpu: cpu-hotplug deadlock Gautham R Shenoy
2008-04-29 14:33   ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-04-29 15:09     ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-04-29 16:45       ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-04-29 17:31         ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-04-30  5:37     ` Gautham R Shenoy
2008-04-30 11:43       ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-04-29 13:02 ` [PATCH 6/8] lockdep: annotate cpu_hotplug Gautham R Shenoy
2008-04-29 13:03 ` [PATCH 7/8] cpu_hotplug: Introduce try_get_online_cpus() Gautham R Shenoy
2008-04-29 13:05 ` [PATCH 8/8] cpufreq: Nest down_write/read(cpufreq_rwsem) within get_online_cpus()/put_online_cpus() Gautham R Shenoy

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