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Message-Id: <20100413.171306.25868761.davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:13:06 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To: fweisbec@...il.com
Cc: paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.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: 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.
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