Re: [BUG] drivers/video/sis: deadlock introduced by"fbdev: add mutex for fb_mmap locking"

[Krzysztof Helt]

On Sun, 5 Jul 2009 07:19:33 -0700 (PDT)
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Sun, 5 Jul 2009, Wu Zhangjin wrote:
> > 
> > then it works! so, I guess there is a deadlock introduced by the above
> > commit.
> 
> Hmm. Perhaps more likely, the 'mm_lock' mutex hasn't even been initialized 
> yet.  We appear to have had that problem with matroxfb and sm501fb, and it 
> may be more common than that. See commit f50bf2b2.
> 
> That said, I do agree that the mm_lock seems to be causing more problems 
> than it actually fixes, and maybe we should revert it. Krzysztof?
> 

I vote for fixing these drivers after my change. I will send a patch for the sis driver soon. I am building new kernel now.

Regards,
Krzysztof

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