From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932116Ab1GNQhY (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:37:24 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:58505 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932084Ab1GNQhX (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:37:23 -0400 Subject: Re: INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected From: Peter Zijlstra To: Sergey Senozhatsky Cc: Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , Steven Rostedt , Andrew Morton , "Paul E. McKenney" , Dipankar Sarma , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20110714144946.GA3354@swordfish.minsk.epam.com> References: <20110714144946.GA3354@swordfish.minsk.epam.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 18:41:39 +0200 Message-ID: <1310661699.2309.13.camel@laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2011-07-14 at 17:49 +0300, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote: > Hello, > > [ 4172.371094] ======================================================= > [ 4172.371097] [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] > [ 4172.371103] 3.0.0-rc7-dbg-00565-g6b31efc #644 > [ 4172.371105] ------------------------------------------------------- > [ 4172.371108] make/11702 is trying to acquire lock: > [ 4172.371111] (rcu_node_level_0){..-...}, at: [] __rcu_read_unlock+0xb9/0x217 > [ 4172.371123] > [ 4172.371123] but task is already holding lock: > [ 4172.371125] (&p->pi_lock){-.-.-.}, at: [] try_to_wake_up+0x29/0x28b > [ 4172.371135] > [ 4172.371135] which lock already depends on the new lock. Happen to have a .config and means of reproduction? We're a little stumped at trying to explain how this can actually happen.