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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/2] console_lock debug improvements
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 00:34:30 +0200
Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> After Dave Airlie blew through a few days to track down a deadlock at boot-up
> when handing over from the firmware fb to the kms/drm framebuffer driver (1), I've
> figured that lockdep /should/ have caught this.
>
> And indeed, by adding proper annotations to the console_lock it complains about
> the potential deadlock when exercising the entire driver life-cycle of just one
> fb driver (i.e. not even a handover required). While at it, I've replaced the
> existing in_interrupt check with the more paranoid might_sleep.
>
> Comments, flames and review highly welcome.

This will be an absolute godsend for DRI debugging. Definitely wants to go
in.

Alan


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