On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Roland Dreier <rdre...@cisco.com> wrote: > > > I'm now using the SRP initiator from a kernel compiled from the > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband.git > > repository, and the lockdep complaints also occur on this system. The > > system even deadlocks during boot about one out of two times. Do you > > already know when you will have the time to commit the > > locking-inversion fixes to the infiniband.git repository ? > > Everything I know of is already in my tree now. And I just checked > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband.git;a=shortlog;h=for-next > and I see both "IB/mad: Fix possible lock-lock-timer deadlock" and > "IPoIB: Drop priv->lock before calling ipoib_send()" there. Those are > all the lockdep-related things I know of. > > I have a hard time imagining that either of those issues could cause a > deadlock on half of boots either. Are you sure the deadlock you see is > related to one of those fixes?
After having switched from the master branch to the for-next branch I do now also see the patches mentioned above. And apparently the phenomenon I observed during boot was not a deadlock but some other strange phenomenon. See also http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14043 for the details. Bart. _______________________________________________ general mailing list general@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
