Re: Can you please take a look at bug39852?

[Tejun Heo]

(cc'ing Jens and LKML)

On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 02:38:26PM +0200, Peter Osterlund wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Jul 2011, Tejun Heo wrote:
> 
> >It looks like spurious lockdep warning via pkt_open().  Seems like the
> >problem has been there since the beginning.  What do you think?
> >
> > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39852
> 
> Yes, it is a spurious warning that has been there since the
> beginning. There were patches to silence the warning back in 2006
> 
> 	https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/25/41
> 
> but they were considered not the right approach. I don't know what
> the right approach is.

I see.  I think the proper solution would be adding a variant of
blkdev_get(), say blkdev_get_nested(), to give the inner open a
different locking class.  Jens, what do you think?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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