[ofa-general] lock dependency in ib_user_mad

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Tue Jan 8 13:29:31 PST 2008


 > 	 * nested locking. NOTE: rwsems are not allowed to recurse
 > 	 * (which occurs if the same task tries to acquire the same
 > 	 * lock instance multiple times)

Ugh, looks like the umad locking needs to be rethought.  I see a few
other rare error path bugs that need to be fixed too.  Well, I'll try
to do some rethinking.

 - R.



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