Re: [PATCH] USB: fix deadlock in HCD code

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed May 21 2008 - 18:26:42 EST


On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 14:09 +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> hcd_urb_list_lock is used for synchronization between IRQ and non-IRQ
> contexts, so the non-IRQ context has to disable IRQs in order to prevent
> deadlocking with IRQ context.

Just wondering,... doesn't lockdep say anything about the situation?

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