Miles Lane wrote: > On 4/26/07, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> A sysfs node can delete other sysfs files when accessed. This results >> in recursive s_active locking - read lock for file access, down lock >> of the vicitim for deactivation. Tell lockdep that it's okay. >> >> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> --- >> Miles, please test this patch. It should remove the lockdep warning. >> Fixes for the other two problems will soon follow. >> >> Greg, Andrew, after all the fixes are verified, I'll merge the fixes >> into the original patches and resend all the sysfs updates in better >> shape. Sorry about all the trouble. > > Should I test this with 2.6.21-rc7-mm2? > It doesn't apply cleanly. > > # patch -p1 -l --dry-run < tejun.patch > patching file fs/sysfs/dir.c > Hunk #1 succeeded at 31 with fuzz 1 (offset -29 lines). > patching file fs/sysfs/sysfs.h > Hunk #1 succeeded at 40 (offset -1 lines). > Hunk #2 succeeded at 182 with fuzz 1 (offset -1 lines).
It's in the middle of gregkh patch series but you can safely ignore the fuzzes. -- tejun - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
