Re: [PATCH] lockdep: Fix redundant_hardirqs_on incremented withirqs enabled

[Frederic Weisbecker]

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 05:32:27PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Frederic,
> 
> On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:37:50 +0200 Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > When a path restore the flags while irqs are already enabled, we
> > update the per cpu var redundant_hardirqs_on in a racy fashion
> > and debug_atomic_inc() warns about this situation.
> > 
> > In this particular case, we need to explictly disable the irqs before
> > updating this stat var in order to update it safely.
> > 
> > Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  kernel/lockdep.c |    4 ++++
> >  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> Ping?  Any movement on this?


Ingo, if you have no problems with these two patches, could you please
apply them?

Thanks.

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