Re: locking issue (hardirq+softirq+user)

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On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 14:35 +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> an user still gets NMI watchdog warning, that the machine deadlocked.

have you tried enabling LOCKDEP ?


> isr() /* i.e. hardirq context */
> {
> spin_lock(&lock);
> ...
> spin_unlock(&lock);
> }

this is ok if you are 100% sure that this never gets called in any other
way

> 
> timer() /* i.e. softirq context */
> {
> unsigned int f;
> spin_lock_irqsave(&lock, f) /* stack shows, that it locks here */

this is a bug, the flags are an "unsigned long" not "unsigned int"!
It may do really bad stuff!

Greetings,
   Arjan van de Ven

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