[ofa-general] lock dependency in ib_user_mad
Roland Dreier
rdreier at cisco.com
Mon Jan 14 13:24:51 PST 2008
> >- down_write(&file->port->mutex);
> >+ mutex_unlock(&file->port->file_mutex);
>
> This should be mutex_lock().
Yup, thanks... I fixed it in my tree. I guess I never tested
unregistering a MAD agent...
> The other changes look okay. With your latest patch and the change above, I was
> not able to reproduce the lockdep warnings. (I've seen the warnings 3 or 4
> times now, but it's not easy to reproduce.)
OK, thanks. I think these changes are an improvement anyway, so I
guess I'll queue them up for 2.6.25 and hope things are fixed...
- R.
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