Re: [patch, lock validator] fix proc_inum_lock related deadlock

* Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> wrote:

> there's another VFS lock that just popped up, hopefully the last one.  
> Fix below. (All this is still related to proc_subdir_lock, and the 
> original BKL bug it fixed.)

bah. proc_num_idr.lock nests too ...

i guess we should stick this into free_irq():

	WARN_ON(in_interrupt());

and be done with it. If all such places are fixed then Steve's fix 
becomes complete.

	Ingo
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References:
- [patch, validator] fix proc_subdir_lock related deadlock
  - From: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
- Re: [patch, validator] fix proc_subdir_lock related deadlock
  - From: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
- Re: [patch, validator] fix proc_subdir_lock related deadlock
  - From: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
- Re: [patch, validator] fix proc_subdir_lock related deadlock
  - From: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
- [patch, lock validator] fix proc_inum_lock related deadlock
  - From: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

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