On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 08:03:24AM -0500, Peter Hurley wrote:
> 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/
>
Thanks for the pointer, Peter. It does fix the problem for me.
Shawn
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