Re: BUG: lock held when returning to user space

[Jiri Kosina <jikos@jikos.cz>]

On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, Gabriel C wrote:

> I found that today in dmesg after booting current git ( 
> ec3b67c11df42362ccda81261d62829042f223f0 ) :
> ...
> [  592.752777]
> [  592.752781] ================================================
> [  592.753478] [ BUG: lock held when returning to user space! ]
> [  592.753880] ------------------------------------------------
> [  592.754262] hwclock/1452 is leaving the kernel with locks still held!
> [  592.754655] 1 lock held by hwclock/1452:
> [  592.755007]  #0:  (&rtc->char_lock){--..}, at: [<c02a7ebb>] rtc_dev_open+0x2e/0x7e                                        

Yes, this is because rtc keeps a char_lock mutex locked as long as the 
device is open, to avoid concurrent accessess.

It could be easily substituted by some counting -- setting and clearing 
bit in struct rtc_device instead of using char_lock, but doing this just 
to shut the lockdep off is questionable imho.

Peter, what is the preferred way to annotate these kinds of locking for 
lockdep to express that it is intended?

-- 
Jiri Kosina
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