[ofa-general] Re: [NEW PATCH] IB/mad: Fix possible lock-lock-timer deadlock

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Tue Sep 8 10:17:01 PDT 2009


 > Update: patch 721d67cdca5b7642b380ca0584de8dceecf6102f does not apply
 > cleanly to 2.6.31-rc9, so I have been using a slightly modified
 > version of this patch
 > (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=22624).
 > 
 > I have retested the 2.6.31-rc9 kernel with the following patches applied to it:
 > * patch 4e49627b9bc29a14b393c480e8c979e3bc922ef7
 > * http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=22624
 > * the patch posted at the start of this thread.
 > 
 > With this combination I did not observe any lockdep complaints.

OK, thanks.  That makes sense -- the new mad patch should be equivalent
to the old in terms of what it fixes.



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