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

Yup, the patch fixes it, I'll commit it via the powerpc.git tree if you
don't have any objection.

Cheers,
Ben.

> 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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