Am Montag, 13. Oktober 2008 schrieb Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
>   ... key      at: [<c000000000939018>] proc_subdir_lock+0x18/0x38
>  ... acquired at:
>    [<c0000000000832e8>] .__lock_acquire+0x814/0x8ec
>    [<c000000000083464>] .lock_acquire+0xa4/0xec
>    [<c0000000004e713c>] ._spin_lock+0x44/0xa0
>    [<c000000000139144>] .xlate_proc_name+0x50/0xf8
>    [<c0000000001392f4>] .remove_proc_entry+0x44/0x298
>    [<c0000000000a1e74>] .unregister_handler_proc+0x40/0x58
>    [<c00000000009fc58>] .free_irq+0x124/0x18c
>    [<c0000000002e6634>] .notifier_del_irq+0x28/0x48
>    [<c0000000002e5ddc>] .hvc_close+0xa0/0x110
>    [<c0000000002cc328>] .release_dev+0x244/0x580
>    [<c0000000002cc688>] .tty_release+0x24/0x44
>    [<c0000000000e5384>] .__fput+0xf8/0x1dc
>    [<c0000000000e1bec>] .filp_close+0xb4/0xdc
>    [<c0000000000e33a4>] .sys_close+0xac/0x100
>    [<c0000000000084d4>] syscall_exit+0x0/0x40


Hmmm. 
Can you try if this patch fixes the lockdep trace?

This would be analog to
commit b1b135c8d619cb2c7045d6ee4e48375882518bb5
Author: Christian Borntraeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date:   Thu Aug 7 09:18:34 2008 +0200

    fix spinlock recursion in hvc_console

    commit 611e097d7707741a336a0677d9d69bec40f29f3d
    Author: Christian Borntraeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
    hvc_console: rework setup to replace irq functions with callbacks
    introduced a spinlock recursion problem.


Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
 drivers/char/hvc_console.c |   10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/drivers/char/hvc_console.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/char/hvc_console.c
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/char/hvc_console.c
@@ -367,13 +367,13 @@ static void hvc_close(struct tty_struct 
        spin_lock_irqsave(&hp->lock, flags);
 
        if (--hp->count == 0) {
-               if (hp->ops->notifier_del)
-                       hp->ops->notifier_del(hp, hp->data);
-
                /* We are done with the tty pointer now. */
                hp->tty = NULL;
                spin_unlock_irqrestore(&hp->lock, flags);
 
+               if (hp->ops->notifier_del)
+                       hp->ops->notifier_del(hp, hp->data);
+
                /*
                 * Chain calls chars_in_buffer() and returns immediately if
                 * there is no buffered data otherwise sleeps on a wait queue
@@ -416,11 +416,11 @@ static void hvc_hangup(struct tty_struct
        hp->n_outbuf = 0;
        hp->tty = NULL;
 
+       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&hp->lock, flags);
+
        if (hp->ops->notifier_del)
                        hp->ops->notifier_del(hp, hp->data);
 
-       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&hp->lock, flags);
-
        while(temp_open_count) {
                --temp_open_count;
                kref_put(&hp->kref, destroy_hvc_struct);

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