Daniel Walker wrote:
Lockdep has identified this lock as a source of potential deadlock in acpi. After reviewing the lock it's not clear what it's protecting. I invite anyone who might know what the point of the lock is to describe it. In the mean time I removed the lock completely which, so far, hasn't had any ill effects on my test machines.
As Bob pointed out this lock is required by the ACPI specification. So I'm not going to apply this patch. However of course we still have to do something about the lockdep warnings when the lock is dropped/reaquired. The big question is if deadlocks can happen really or not. AFAIK we didn't have a clear answer on that yet. -Andi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
