On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 02:24:56PM -0400, Michael Wu wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 April 2007 14:09, Andy Green wrote:
> > =============================================
> > [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
> > 2.6.21-rc7 #11
> > ---------------------------------------------
> > ip/2600 is trying to acquire lock:
> > (&dev->_xmit_lock){-+..}, at: [<e09199c5>]
> > ieee80211_set_multicast_list+0x46/0x167 [mac80211]
> >
> > but task is already holding lock:
> > (&dev->_xmit_lock){-+..}, at: [<c05abc05>] dev_mc_upload+0x14/0x3c
> >
> This is fine, though it would be nice if we can shut the warning off. Virtual
> interfaces can try to take the xmit lock of the master device, but the master
> device will never try to take the xmit lock of the virtual interfaces and
> especially not while holding its own xmit lock.
Hmmm...there is probably some lockdep annotation foo to take care of
this, but I don't know it.
Anyone?
John
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