[openib-general] [RFC] [PATCH] RDMA/iwcm: Prevent deadlock in locking.

Krishna Kumar2 krkumar2 at in.ibm.com
Sun Nov 19 22:17:36 PST 2006


The "previous" patch fixes the lockdep warning problem, while this patch 
(which I am
not really sure can happen as I have not tested it), is solving the real 
deadlock
problem.

Oops, my script has a bug in the Subject, will fix it.

thanks,

- KK

Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com> wrote on 11/17/2006 10:14:06 PM:

> Umm.. what's the point of the previous patch that changed spin_lock to
> spin_lock_nested?  All it did was hide this bug.
> 
> Also BTW your subject lines are off -- these are not RDMA/iwcm
> patches.
> 
>  - R.





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