Re: [patch, validator] fix proc_subdir_lock related deadlock

[Steven Rostedt]

On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 18:03 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> proc_subdir_lock can also be used from softirq (tasklet) context, which 
> may lead to deadlocks.
> 
> This bug was found via the lock validator:
> 

Thanks Ingo,

I stressed in sending the patch that there was a big assumption that the
calls would not be done in (soft)irq context.  I just didn't want to add
overhead if it wasn't needed.  But I guess that this is needed until we
can remove all the instances that use it in softirq context. But that's
for a later patch.

Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

-- Steve


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