Re: 2.6.18-rc5-mm1 + all hotfixes -- INFO: possible recursive locking detected

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Sep 06 2006 - 18:33:33 EST


On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 09:13:34AM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
> Do class->subsys.rwsem, bus->subsys.rwsem, and bus_type.subsys.rwsem
> point to identical or different lock instances?

class->subsys.rwsem is different from the others. bus->subsys.rwsem and
bus_type.subsys.rwsem are probably the same thing (depending on what
that bus-> pointer is to.)

> Either way, could it hurt to convert nodemgr to uniformly use
> ieee1394_bus_type.subsys.rwsem all over the place?

Probably a good idea.

thanks,

greg k-h
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