From: Steven Rostedt I hit the following lockdep splat when booting with ftrace selftests enabled, as well as CONFIG_PREEMPT and LOCKDEP. Testing dynamic ftrace ops #1: (1 0 1 0 0) (1 1 2 0 0) (2 1 3 0 169) (2 2 4 0 50066) ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 13 at kernel/rcu/srcutree.c:202 check_init_srcu_struct+0x60/0x70 Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 13 Comm: rcu_tasks_kthre Not tainted 4.12.0-rc1-test+ #587 Hardware name: Hewlett-Packard HP Compaq Pro 6300 SFF/339A, BIOS K01 v02.05 05/07/2012 task: ffff880119628040 task.stack: ffffc900006a4000 RIP: 0010:check_init_srcu_struct+0x60/0x70 RSP: 0000:ffffc900006a7d98 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000246 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: ffff880119628040 RSI: 00000000ffffffff RDI: ffffffff81e5fb40 RBP: ffffc900006a7e20 R08: 00000023b403c000 R09: 0000000000000001 R10: ffffc900006a7e40 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffff81e5fb40 R13: 0000000000000286 R14: ffff880119628040 R15: ffffc900006a7e98 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88011ea00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: ffff88011edff000 CR3: 0000000001e0f000 CR4: 00000000001406f0 Call Trace: ? __synchronize_srcu+0x6e/0x140 ? lock_acquire+0xdc/0x1d0 ? ktime_get_mono_fast_ns+0x5d/0xb0 synchronize_srcu+0x6f/0x110 ? synchronize_srcu+0x6f/0x110 rcu_tasks_kthread+0x20a/0x540 kthread+0x114/0x150 ? __rcu_read_unlock+0x70/0x70 ? kthread_create_on_node+0x40/0x40 ret_from_fork+0x2e/0x40 Code: f6 83 70 06 00 00 03 49 89 c5 74 0d be 01 00 00 00 48 89 df e8 42 fa ff ff 4c 89 ee 4c 89 e7 e8 b7 42 75 00 5b 41 5c 41 5d 5d c3 <0f> ff eb aa 66 90 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 ---[ end trace 5c3f4206ce50f6ac ]--- What happens is that the selftests include a creating of a dynamically allocated ftrace_ops, which requires the use of synchronize_rcu_tasks() which uses srcu, and triggers the above warning. It appears that synchronize_rcu_tasks() is not set up at early_initcall(), but it is at core_initcall(). By moving the tests down to that location works out properly. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170517111435.7388c033@gandalf.local.home Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) --- kernel/trace/trace.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c index c4536c449021..cdf97ce8cff2 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -1558,7 +1558,7 @@ static __init int init_trace_selftests(void) return 0; } -early_initcall(init_trace_selftests); +core_initcall(init_trace_selftests); #else static inline int run_tracer_selftest(struct tracer *type) { -- 2.10.2