On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 09:29:34AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> what lockdep does is it observes actual locking dependencies as they
> happen individually in various contexts, and then 'completes' the
> dependency graph by combining all the possible scenarios how contexts
> might preempt each other. So if lockdep sees independent dependencies
> and concludes that they are circular, there's nothing that saves us from
> the deadlock.
Ingo,
Consider a case where we have three locks A, B and C.
We have very clear locking rule inside the kernel that lock A *should*
be acquired before acquiring either lock B or lock C.
At runtime lockdep detects the two dependency chains,
A --> B --> C
and
A --> C --> B.
Does lockdep issue a circular dependency warning for this ?
It's quite clear from the locking rule that we cannot have a
circular deadlock, since A acts as a mutex for B->C / C->B callpath.
Just curious :-) [ Well, I might encounter such a scenario in an attempt
to make cpufreq cpu-hotplug safe! ]
> Ingo
Thanks and Regards
gautham.
--
Gautham R Shenoy
Linux Technology Center
IBM India.
"Freedom comes with a price tag of responsibility, which is still a bargain,
because Freedom is priceless!"
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