linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.32-rc5-mmotm1101 - lockdep whinge during early boot

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Date:	Thu, 5 Nov 2009 19:41:03 +1030
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>
Subject: Re: 2.6.32-rc5-mmotm1101 - lockdep whinge during early boot

On Thu, 5 Nov 2009 02:41:24 am Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
 [    0.344147] swapper/1 is trying to acquire lock:
> [    0.344154]  (cpu_add_remove_lock){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff8103c222>] cpu_maps_update_begin+0x12/0x14
> [    0.344174]
> [    0.344175] but task is already holding lock:
> [    0.344183]  (setup_lock){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff81078755>] stop_machine_create+0x12/0x9b
> [    0.344200]
> [    0.344201] which lock already depends on the new lock.

Hi Vladis!

    Sigh.  I always find reading these a complete mindfuck.

stop_machine_create: setup_lock then cpu_add_remove_lock
	(in create_workqueue_key() -> cpu_maps_update_begin())
clocksource_done_booting: clocksource_mutex then setup_lock
	(in stop_machine_create(), as above)
cpu_up: cpu_add_remove_lock then clocksource_mutex
	(in mark_tsc_unstable() -> clocksource_change_rating())

AFAICT this is our circular dependency.  But I'm no closer to knowing how to
solve it.

Oleg (CC'd) made workqueues use cpu_maps_update_begin() instead of the
more obvious get_online_cpus() in 3da1c84c00c7e5f.  Reverting that seems like
a bad idea.

Or, if the clocksource list wasn't ordered, we could change the rating without
a lock.

Either way, the locking shark is well and truly jumped...
Rusty.
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