On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 02:31:22AM +0100, Linus L??ssing wrote: > Hi Simon, > > I just gave your patch a try on my laptop and could successfully, > reproduceably crash my kernel in the following way:
This looks like a deadlock. Simon: Did you try lockdep on this new code? http://lwn.net/Articles/185666/ This should hopefully show you what locks are being taken in the wrong order. This is something i keep intending on running, but never get around to it. Now we have a probably deadlock, it might be enough reason for me to actually do it. Andrew
