On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 11:52:31AM -0400, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
> I recently rebuilt my mainline kernel with lockdep enabled since I've
> been getting reports of reiserfs lockdep warnings. When I booted, I got
> the following warning from configfs. I haven't done any triage at all on
> it, but one of the shortcomings of lockdep IMO is the false positives.
> The ones for reiserfs just need better annotation. There's no error
> condition. This might be the same.
Without looking deeply, that stack is pretty much where we
expect to see recursive locking that needs annotation. It's carefully
designed, but I haven't gotten around to learning how to annotate it.
Joel
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