Re: [PATCH] IB/ehca: Fix lockdep failures for shca_list_lock
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Date: 2008-11-21 16:02:45
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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Date: 2008-11-21 16:02:45
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On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 16:37 +0100, Joachim Fenkes wrote:
+ u64 flags;
- spin_lock(&shca_list_lock); + spin_lock_irqsave(&shca_list_lock, flags);
That's wrong and I think will give a warning on all machines where u64 != unsigned long. Might not particularly matter in this case. Also, generally it seems wrong to say "fix lockdep failure" when the patch really fixes a bug that lockdep happened to find. johannes