linux-kernel - Re: next-20130128 lockdep whinge in sys

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Date:	Mon, 4 Feb 2013 10:46:38 +0900
From:	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
To:	Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu>
Cc:	Shaohua Li <shli@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: next-20130128 lockdep whinge in sys_swapon()

Hello,


On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 01:45:14PM -0500, Valdis Kletnieks wrote:
> Seen in my linux-next dmesg.  I'm suspecting commit ac07b1ffc:
> 
> commit ac07b1ffc27d575013041fb5277dab02c661d9c2
> Author: Shaohua Li <shli@...nel.org>
> Date:   Thu Jan 24 13:13:50 2013 +1100
> 
>     swap: add per-partition lock for swapfile
> 
> as (a) it was OK in -20130117, and (b) 'git blame mm/swapfile.c | grep 2013'
> shows that commit as the vast majority of changes.
> 
> [   42.498669] INFO: trying to register non-static key.
> [   42.498670] the code is fine but needs lockdep annotation.
> [   42.498671] turning off the locking correctness validator.
> [   42.498674] Pid: 1035, comm: swapon Not tainted 3.8.0-rc5-next-20130128 #52
> [   42.498675] Call Trace:
> [   42.498681]  [<ffffffff81073dc8>] register_lock_class+0x103/0x2ad
> [   42.498685]  [<ffffffff812493ad>] ? __list_add_rcu+0xc4/0xdf
> [   42.498688]  [<ffffffff81075573>] __lock_acquire+0x108/0xd63
> [   42.498691]  [<ffffffff810b482b>] ? trace_preempt_on+0x12/0x2f
> [   42.498695]  [<ffffffff81608e6e>] ? sub_preempt_count+0x31/0x43
> [   42.498699]  [<ffffffff810fda36>] ? sys_swapon+0x6f9/0x9d9
> [   42.498701]  [<ffffffff810764f2>] lock_acquire+0xc7/0x14a
> [   42.498703]  [<ffffffff810fda62>] ? sys_swapon+0x725/0x9d9
> [   42.498706]  [<ffffffff81605023>] _raw_spin_lock+0x34/0x41
> [   42.498708]  [<ffffffff810fda62>] ? sys_swapon+0x725/0x9d9
> [   42.498710]  [<ffffffff810fda62>] sys_swapon+0x725/0x9d9
> [   42.498712]  [<ffffffff8107520a>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x149/0x165
> [   42.498715]  [<ffffffff8160be92>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
> [   42.498719] Adding 2097148k swap on /dev/mapper/vg_blackice-swap.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:2097148k
> 
> Somebody care to sprinkle the appropriate annotations on that code?

Could you test this patch?

>From 81cae17c55ade897a7e06b01c864f1c250b40f8b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 10:43:32 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] mm: Get rid of lockdep whinge on sys_swapon

[1] forgot to initialize spin_lock so lockdep is whingeing
about it. This patch fixes it.

[1] 0f181e0e4, swap: add per-partition lock for swapfile

Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@...nel.org>
Reported-by: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
---
 mm/swapfile.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index dfaff5f..ac190d6 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -1857,6 +1857,7 @@ static struct swap_info_struct *alloc_swap_info(void)
 	p->flags = SWP_USED;
 	p->next = -1;
 	spin_unlock(&swap_lock);
+	spin_lock_init(&p->lock);
 
 	return p;
 }
-- 
1.8.1.1


-- 
Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
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