linux-kernel - Re: lockdep splat in CPU hotplug

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Date:	Tue, 21 Oct 2014 17:04:17 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-pm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: lockdep splat in CPU hotplug

On Tue, 21 Oct 2014, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> > Please have a look at the very first stacktrace in the dump, where lockdep 
> > is trying to explain where cpu_hotplug.lock#2 has been acquired. It seems 
> > to imply that cpuidle_pause() is taking cpu_hotplug.lock, but that's not 
> > the case at all.
> > 
> > What am I missing?
> > 
> 
> > -> #1 (cpu_hotplug.lock#2){+.+.+.}:
> >         [<ffffffff81099fac>] lock_acquire+0xac/0x130
> >         [<ffffffff815b9f2c>] mutex_lock_nested+0x5c/0x3b0
> >         [<ffffffff81491892>] cpuidle_pause+0x12/0x30
> >         [<ffffffff81402314>] dpm_suspend_noirq+0x44/0x340
> >         [<ffffffff81402958>] dpm_suspend_end+0x38/0x80
> >         [<ffffffff810a07bd>] hibernation_snapshot+0xcd/0x370
> >         [<ffffffff810a1248>] hibernate+0x168/0x210
> >         [<ffffffff8109e9b4>] state_store+0xe4/0xf0
> >         [<ffffffff813003ef>] kobj_attr_store+0xf/0x20
> >         [<ffffffff8121e9a3>] sysfs_kf_write+0x43/0x60
> >         [<ffffffff8121e287>] kernfs_fop_write+0xe7/0x170
> >         [<ffffffff811a7342>] vfs_write+0xb2/0x1f0
> >         [<ffffffff811a7da4>] SyS_write+0x44/0xb0
> >         [<ffffffff815be856>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
> 
> Yeah, this backtrace looks totally bogus. Unless there's some magic going on
> with grabbing the get_online_cpus here?
> 
> Could you send your config. Maybe it has to do with some debug magic?

.config attached.

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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