On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 23:27:37 -0800
David Brownell <[email protected]> wrote:
> I got a lockdep warning when running "rtctest" so I though it'd be good
> to see what was up.
>
> - The warning was for rtc->irq_task_lock, gotten from rtc_update_irq()
> by irq handlerss ... but in a handful of other cases, grabbed without
> blocking IRQs.
>
> - Some callers to rtc_update_irq() were not ensuring IRQs were blocked,
> yet the routine expects that; make sure all callers block IRQs.
>
> It would appear that RTC API tests haven't been part of anyone's kernel
> regression test suite recently, at least not with lockdep running.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <[email protected]>
--
Best regards,
Alessandro Zummo,
Tower Technologies - Turin, Italy
http://www.towertech.it
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