Re: BUG: circular locking dependency detected

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Wed Jan 30 2013 - 19:27:23 EST


On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Russell King <rmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Which may or may not be a good thing depending how you look at it; it
> means that once your kernel blanks, you get a lockdep dump. At that
> point you lose lockdep checking for everything else because lockdep
> disables itself after the first dump.

Fair enough, we may want to revert the lockdep checking for
console_lock, and make re-enabling it part of the patch-series that
fixes the locking.

Daniel/Dave? Does that sound reasonable?

Linus
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