Re: [BUG] Lockless patches cause hardlock under heavy IO

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Thu Jun 19 2008 - 20:05:43 EST


On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:45:43 -0400
"Ryan Hope" <rmh3093@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Well enabling these debug options is sorta useless because once it
> hardlocks I cant see or do anything..
>

the nice thing about lockdep is that it spots *potential* deadlocks;
often well before the actual deadlock happens...



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