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SubjectRe: [PATCH] workaround minor lockdep bug triggered by mm_take_all_locks
Hi Andrea,

On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 10:37:22PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> You're so wrong it not even funny. It reports about deadlocks before
>> they happen. All it needs is to observe a lock order violation and it

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 12:09 AM, Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com> wrote:
> Now tell me how it helps to report them... It tells me the system has
> crashed and where, it's not like I couldn't figure it out by myself
> but just noticing nothing works and all cpus are spinning in some
> spinlock slow path and pressing sysrq+t/p.

Sometimes it's hard to actually trigger a deadlock condition during
development, especially if you're not developing on a big iron
machine.


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