Re: circular locking: /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

From: Frederik Deweerdt
Date: Fri Feb 23 2007 - 04:41:34 EST


On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 07:35:38AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> Andrew,
>
> i just got the lockdep warning below when doing:
>
> echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
>
> is this a known quirk in the drop_caches code?
>
This is known, yes: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/4/19

Regards,
Frederik
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