From f4185812aa046ecb97e8817e10148cacdd7a6baa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steven Rostedt Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 21:41:55 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] lockdep: Print a nicer description for normal deadlocks The lockdep output can be pretty cryptic, having nicer output can save a lot of head scratching. When a normal deadlock scenario is detected by lockdep (lock A -> lock B and there exists a place where lock B -> lock A) we now get the following new output: other info that might help us debug this: Possible unsafe locking scenario: CPU0 CPU1 ---- ---- lock(lockB); lock(lockA); lock(lockB); lock(lockA); *** DEADLOCK *** On cases where there's a deeper chair, it shows the partial chain that can cause the issue: Chain exists of: lockC --> lockA --> lockB Possible unsafe locking scenario: CPU0 CPU1 ---- ---- lock(lockB); lock(lockA); lock(lockB); lock(lockC); *** DEADLOCK *** Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110421014259.380621789@goodmis.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Reading git-format-patch failed