The patch titled lockdep: do not recurse in printk has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename is lockdep-do-not-recurse-in-printk.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: lockdep: do not recurse in printk From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> Make printk()-ing from within the lock validation code safer by using the lockdep-recursion counter. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- kernel/printk.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff -puN kernel/printk.c~lockdep-do-not-recurse-in-printk kernel/printk.c --- a/kernel/printk.c~lockdep-do-not-recurse-in-printk +++ a/kernel/printk.c @@ -518,7 +518,9 @@ asmlinkage int vprintk(const char *fmt, zap_locks(); /* This stops the holder of console_sem just where we want him */ - spin_lock_irqsave(&logbuf_lock, flags); + local_irq_save(flags); + lockdep_off(); + spin_lock(&logbuf_lock); printk_cpu = smp_processor_id(); /* Emit the output into the temporary buffer */ @@ -588,7 +590,7 @@ asmlinkage int vprintk(const char *fmt, */ console_locked = 1; printk_cpu = UINT_MAX; - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&logbuf_lock, flags); + spin_unlock(&logbuf_lock); /* * Console drivers may assume that per-cpu resources have @@ -604,6 +606,8 @@ asmlinkage int vprintk(const char *fmt, console_locked = 0; up(&console_sem); } + lockdep_on(); + local_irq_restore(flags); } else { /* * Someone else owns the drivers. We drop the spinlock, which @@ -611,7 +615,9 @@ asmlinkage int vprintk(const char *fmt, * console drivers with the output which we just produced. */ printk_cpu = UINT_MAX; - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&logbuf_lock, flags); + spin_unlock(&logbuf_lock); + lockdep_on(); + local_irq_restore(flags); } preempt_enable(); @@ -809,8 +815,15 @@ void release_console_sem(void) console_may_schedule = 0; up(&console_sem); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&logbuf_lock, flags); - if (wake_klogd && !oops_in_progress && waitqueue_active(&log_wait)) - wake_up_interruptible(&log_wait); + if (wake_klogd && !oops_in_progress && waitqueue_active(&log_wait)) { + /* + * If we printk from within the lock dependency code, + * from within the scheduler code, then do not lock + * up due to self-recursion: + */ + if (!lockdep_internal()) + wake_up_interruptible(&log_wait); + } } EXPORT_SYMBOL(release_console_sem); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from mingo@xxxxxxx are origin.patch disable-debugging-version-of-write_lock.patch lock-validator-fix-ns83820c-irq-flags-bug.patch revert-gregkh-pci-pci-test-that-drivers-properly-call-pci_set_master.patch my-name-is-ingo-molnar-you-killed-my-make-allyesconfig-prepare-to-die.patch sched-fix-bug-in-__migrate_task.patch small-kernel-schedc-cleanup.patch x86-re-enable-generic-numa.patch sched-add-above-background-load-function.patch mm-implement-swap-prefetching.patch sched-cleanup-remove-task_t-convert-to-struct-task_struct-prefetch.patch genirq-convert-the-x86_64-architecture-to-irq-chips.patch genirq-convert-the-i386-architecture-to-irq-chips.patch genirq-irq-convert-the-move_irq-flag-from-a-32bit-word-to-a-single-bit.patch genirq-irq-add-moved_masked_irq.patch genirq-x86_64-irq-reenable-migrating-irqs-to-other-cpus.patch genirq-msi-simplify-msi-enable-and-disable.patch genirq-msi-make-the-msi-boolean-tests-return-either-0-or-1.patch genirq-msi-implement-helper-functions-read_msi_msg-and-write_msi_msg.patch genirq-msi-refactor-the-msi_ops.patch genirq-msi-simplify-the-msi-irq-limit-policy.patch genirq-irq-add-a-dynamic-irq-creation-api.patch genirq-ia64-irq-dynamic-irq-support.patch genirq-i386-irq-dynamic-irq-support.patch genirq-x86_64-irq-dynamic-irq-support.patch genirq-msi-make-the-msi-code-irq-based-and-not-vector-based.patch genirq-x86_64-irq-move-msi-message-composition-into-io_apicc.patch genirq-i386-irq-move-msi-message-composition-into-io_apicc.patch genirq-msi-only-build-msi-apicc-on-ia64.patch genirq-x86_64-irq-remove-the-msi-assumption-that-irq-==-vector.patch genirq-i386-irq-remove-the-msi-assumption-that-irq-==-vector.patch genirq-irq-remove-msi-hacks.patch genirq-irq-generalize-the-check-for-hardirq_bits.patch genirq-x86_64-irq-make-the-external-irq-handlers-report-their-vector-not-the-irq-number.patch genirq-x86_64-irq-make-vector_irq-per-cpu.patch genirq-x86_64-irq-kill-gsi_irq_sharing.patch genirq-x86_64-irq-kill-irq-compression.patch detect-atomic-counter-underflows.patch debug-shared-irqs.patch make-frame_pointer-default=y.patch mutex-subsystem-synchro-test-module.patch vdso-print-fatal-signals.patch vdso-improve-print_fatal_signals-support-by-adding-memory-maps.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html