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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org,
	Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] tty: don't dead lock while flushing workqueue
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:21:43 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121130172143.GA6635@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121130170938.GA7323@breakpoint.cc>

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 06:09:38PM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 07:01:08PM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> > Since commit 89c8d91e31f2 ("tty: localise the lock") I see a dead lock
> > in one of my dummy_hcd + g_nokia test cases. The first run one was usually
> > okay, the second often resulted in a splat by lockdep and the third was
> > usually a dead lock.
> 
> Ping. Can you feed this to your tty tree? :)

It's really late in the release cycle, I would like to have this get
more testing in linux-next before I send it to Linus, so I was going to
wait until after 3.8-rc1 is out before doing it.

I'm doing the same thing for all tty/serial patches right now, so don't
feel like I'm picking on you :)

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-30 17:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-21 12:39 [PATCH] tty: don't dead while flushing workqueue Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2012-11-21 14:04 ` Alan Cox
2012-11-27  9:53   ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2012-11-27 17:22     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-11-27 18:01       ` [PATCH RESEND] tty: don't dead lock " Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2012-11-30 17:09         ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2012-11-30 17:21           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2012-11-30 18:11             ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2012-12-03 17:41         ` Peter Hurley
2012-12-05 16:15           ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2012-12-05 17:11             ` Alan Cox
2012-12-25 22:02               ` [PATCH v3] tty: don't deadlock " Sebastian Andrzej Siewior

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