Re: [BUG] scsi/io-elevator held lock freed.

[Ingo Molnar]

* Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 07:54 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> > I got this during boot. I booted the same kernel several times, and only
> > saw it once. The kernel was 2.6.17-mm5 .
> > 
> > Daniel
> > 
> > 
> > =========================
> > [ BUG: held lock freed! ]
> > -------------------------
> > swapper/1 is freeing memory f73a8580-f73a867f, with a lock still held there!
> > 2 locks held by swapper/1:
> >  #0:  (&shost->scan_mutex){--..}, at: [<c0419098>] mutex_lock+0x8/0x10
> >  #1:  (&eq->sysfs_lock){--..}, at: [<c0419098>] mutex_lock+0x8/0x10
> 
> blargh.. it'd be more useful if lockdep actually printed which lock it 
> is that it thinks is about to get freed.....

i think it's eq->sysfs_lock that is being freed here.

> this patch ought to make it do that; could you at least add this to 
> your kernel?
> 
> Ingo, is this the right approach?

yeah, that's OK.

	Ingo
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