Re: [PATCH] lockdep: disable lock debugging when kernel statebecomes untrusted

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 08:40:42 +0200
Voluspa <lista1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > That would appear to be a bug.  debug_locks_off() is running
> > console_verbose() waaaay after the locking selftest code has
> > completed.
> 
> The possibly final -rc6 is likewise broken. What would it take to incur
> some respect for us, the millions of users effected by this shit?
> Should we all become quasi-developers and bombard lkml with patches
> that taint the kernel whenever some of the Intel binary blobs are
> loaded?
> 
> Would that cluebat Arjan off of his high horse?

Thanks for the reminder ;)

Arjan, what's that console_verbose() doing in debug_locks_off()?  Whatever
it is, can we fix it?  Presumably the previous loglevel needs to be
readopted somehow, or we just take it out of there.

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