Re: 2.6.17-rc6-mm1 -- BUG: possible circular locking deadlock detected!

[Ingo Molnar]

* Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > below i've attached a cleaned up version of my NTFS annotations so far. 
> > I think they are pretty straightforward and nonintrusive - for 
> > !CONFIG_LOCKDEP they add zero changes to ntfs.ko. Most of the linecount 
> > of the patch comes from comments - so i think we might even consider 
> > this a "document locking rules" patch :-)
> 
> Thanks, looks great!  Can I leave it to you to keep it as part of the 
> lock validator patches so it gets into -mm with them and later makes 
> it into the stock kernel with them?

sure!

> If you want, feel free to add:
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> To the patch...

thanks - added.

If anyone wants to try the NTFS related lock-validator fixes, they are 
included in the combo patch:

  http://redhat.com/~mingo/lockdep-patches/lockdep-combo-2.6.17-rc6-mm2.patch

which goes ontop of 2.6.17-rc6-mm2.

	Ingo
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