On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 12:49:49PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 23:04 -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

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On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 02:57:39PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

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(cc linux-input)

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:41:25 +0200
"Zdenek Kabelac" [off-list ref] wrote:

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Hi

During mouse unplugging from psaux connector from the laptops' docking
station I've got attached INFO trace.
(laptops still has synaptics device)

Dell?

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Also for unknown reason to me  psaux mouse & synaptic device do not
work somehow together - is it hw limitation
of /dev/input/mice  interface?
(USB mouse and synaptics do work quite well together)

[ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
2.6.27-rc1 #48

(it's 2.6.27-rc1)

Peter, here is the trace we talked about long time ago. For some reason
lockdep annotation only works once. If reconnect is forced or psmouse
module is reloaded lockdep starts complaining about passthrough port.

Bit puzzling - and I don't have any ps2 hardware around to test with
(nor do I normally use modules - but that is fixable of course).

Does Rabin's patch help?

  http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/8/7/329

I doubt it resolves problem fully because it only takes care of module
unload. I can easily trip lockdep by reconnecting the device. Just to
give some more details about the problem:

 - synaptics touchpads have a pass-through port that allows to connect
   either external mouse or maybe a trackpoint device. Both devices
   are represented by 'serio' structures and are handled by the same
   driver (psmouse).

 - as far as I know we have proper locking there and lockdep
   annotatinos were added to lockdep to reflect the nesting of the
   serio ports.

 - if child port (pass-through port) is destroyed and recreated (due
   to module unload, or because user requested reconnect through sysfs
   or system-initiated reconnect) lockdep starts complaining although
   the new child port should still have the same "depth" as the old
   one.

Thanks!

-- 
Dmitry