On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 04:26:46PM -0700, Stephen Warren wrote: > On 02/11/2013 03:19 PM, Grant Likely wrote: > > of_get_next_available_child() obtains the devtree_lock and then calls > > of_device_is_available() which also attempts to claim the lock. This is > > obviously incorrect and causes a deadlock on boot. Fix issue by adding > > an variant of of_device_is_available() which doesn't obtain the lock. > > This patch forgets to update __of_device_is_available() to call > __of_get_property() rather than of_get_property() and hence doesn't > actually solve the problem.
Yes, please. of_get_property() called from __of_device_is_available() pretty much defeats the purpose of having the non-locked version. Thierry
pgpmlGfj0LjIu.pgp
Description: PGP signature