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Re: lockdep: incorrect deadlock warning with two GPIO expanders

From Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: lockdep: incorrect deadlock warning with two GPIO expanders
Date 2016-09-15 16:20 +0200
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2016-09-15 15:39 GMT+02:00 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 03:20:58PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
>> 2016-09-15 14:41 GMT+02:00 Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>:
>> >> So can't you walk up that and see if you encounter the exact same driver
>> >> again?
>> >>
>> >> Something like:
>> >>
>> >>         for (nr = 0, parent = dev->parent; parent; parent = parent->parent) {
>> >>                 if (parent->device_driver == &pca953x_driver.driver)
>> >>                         nr++;
>> >>         }
>> >
>> > Oh clever. Of course.
>> >
>> > Bartosz can you try out this approach?
>> >
>>
>> I think it may be more complicated than that, depending on the hw
>> topology, but the general idea seems reasonable. I'll try this.
>
> Yeah, I figured there might be more to it.
>
> In any case, if this fails, we can always punt and simply count the
> total number of instances of this driver on the system and go with that.
>

But for __mutex_init() to work with the key argument you need to know
it at compile time, right?

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lockdep: incorrect deadlock warning with two GPIO expanders Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com> - 2016-09-12 14:00 +0200
  Re: lockdep: incorrect deadlock warning with two GPIO expanders Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-09-12 14:10 +0200
    Re: lockdep: incorrect deadlock warning with two GPIO expanders Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com> - 2016-09-12 17:20 +0200
      Re: lockdep: incorrect deadlock warning with two GPIO expanders Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-09-12 17:40 +0200
        Re: lockdep: incorrect deadlock warning with two GPIO expanders Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> - 2016-09-13 14:30 +0200
          Re: lockdep: incorrect deadlock warning with two GPIO expanders Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-09-15 10:00 +0200
            Re: lockdep: incorrect deadlock warning with two GPIO expanders Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> - 2016-09-15 14:50 +0200
              Re: lockdep: incorrect deadlock warning with two GPIO expanders Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com> - 2016-09-15 15:30 +0200
                Re: lockdep: incorrect deadlock warning with two GPIO expanders Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-09-15 15:40 +0200
                Re: lockdep: incorrect deadlock warning with two GPIO expanders Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com> - 2016-09-15 16:20 +0200
                Re: lockdep: incorrect deadlock warning with two GPIO expanders Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-09-15 16:40 +0200
                Re: lockdep: incorrect deadlock warning with two GPIO expanders Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com> - 2016-09-15 17:30 +0200
                Re: lockdep: incorrect deadlock warning with two GPIO expanders Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-09-16 13:00 +0200
                Re: lockdep: incorrect deadlock warning with two GPIO expanders Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com> - 2016-09-16 13:20 +0200
                Re: lockdep: incorrect deadlock warning with two GPIO expanders Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com> - 2016-09-16 14:10 +0200
              Re: lockdep: incorrect deadlock warning with two GPIO expanders Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com> - 2016-09-16 16:30 +0200

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