linux-kernel - Re: Weird rcu lockdep warning

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Date:	Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:51:06 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:	fweisbec@...il.com, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl, mingo@...e.hu,
	sparclinux@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Weird rcu lockdep warning

From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:49:30 -0700

> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 05:13:06PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
>> Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 02:02:27 +0200
>> 
>> > I just have a guess though....
>> > This seems to always happen from NMI path, and lockdep is disabled on NMI.
>> > I suspect the lock_acquire() performed by rcu_read_lock() is just ignored
>> > and then the rcu_read_lock_held() check has the wrong result...
>> 
>> Yeah, I bet that's it too.
>> 
>> lock_is_held() can't return anything meaningful while lockdep is
>> disabled, which it is during NMIs.
> 
> Ah!  So I just need to add a "current->lockdep_recursion"
> check to debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled().  And move the function to
> kernel/rcutree_plugin.h to avoid #include hell.
> 
> See below for (untested) patch.

Looks good to me, Frederic please test :-)
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