Re: ftrace 2.6.30-rc4: possible circular locking dependency

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Fri May 08 2009 - 11:26:10 EST



On Fri, 8 May 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:

>
> * Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi Tetsuo,
> >
> > Thanks for the report. But we already have a fix for it. But the change is
> > a bit of design change, and it is one of those things that is hard to know
> > if we should push it up stream this late in the RCs.
> >
> > We probably should. But the change affects two different subsystems. It
> > affects ftrace as well as the module code. There's a bit of changes to the
> > module code (Rusty being the maintainer) where we would be more
> > comfortable if it goes via Rusty.
> >
> > Rusty and Ingo,
> >
> > What is the best way to get this change upstream?
> >
> > Reference: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/4/15/548
> >
> > tip git SHA1: 93eb677d74a4f7d3edfb678c94f6c0544d9fbad2
>
> Would be nice to have a non-conflicting version against latest -git
> - which Tetsuo could test as well, and which i could apply if the
> test is successful.

OK, I'll write up a patch.

-- Steve

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