linux-kernel - Re: Lockdep splat in cpuset code acquiring alloc

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Date:	Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:39:47 +0800
From:	Miao Xie <miaox@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>
CC:	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org, balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	lizf@...fujitsu.com, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: Lockdep splat in cpuset code acquiring alloc_lock

CC Oleg
CC Ingo

on 2010-4-15 5:10, Paul Menage wrote:
> Looks like select_fallback_rq() shouldn't be calling
> cpuset_cpus_allowed_locked(), which does a task_lock(), which isn't
> IRQ safe. Also, according to its comments that should only be held
> with the cpuset callback_mutex held, which seems unlikely from a
> softirq handler.
> 
> Also, calling cpuset_cpus_allowed_locked(p, &p->cpus_allowed) stomps
> on state in p without (AFAICS) synchronization.
> 
> The description of commit e76bd8d9850c2296a7e8e24c9dce9b5e6b55fe2f
> includes the phrase " I'm fairly sure this works, but there might be a
> deadlock hiding" although I think that the lockdep-reported problem is
> different than what Rusty had in mind.

This problem have been fixed by Oleg Nesterov, and the patchset was merged
into tip tree, but it's scheduled for .35 ...

http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/3/15/73

Thanks!
Miao

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