From: Zenghui Yu <zenghui.yu@linux.dev>
To: virtualization@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
jasowangio@gmail.com, eperezma@redhat.com,
xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com, nicolinc@nvidia.com, jgg@ziepe.ca
Subject: [virtio_pci?] WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2026 20:37:04 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <98f2f4f9-a7fe-413e-a366-7bed08290697@linux.dev> (raw)
Hi folks,
I hit the following lockdep splat in an arm64 guest whose PCI devices sit
behind an SMMUv3.
======================================================
WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
7.3.0-rc1+ #84 Not tainted
------------------------------------------------------
kworker/u34:0/57 is trying to acquire lock:
ffff800104f83ee8 (&md->mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: msi_domain_get_virq+0xf0/0x118
but task is already holding lock:
ffffc00081edd930 (cpu_hotplug_lock){++++}-{0:0}, at: cpus_read_lock+0x10/0x1c
which lock already depends on the new lock.
Chain exists of:
&md->mutex --> &group->mutex --> cpu_hotplug_lock
The cycle is built from three dependencies:
* cpu_hotplug_lock -> &md_mutex (which triggers the splat). virtio_net's
init_vqs() calls cpus_read_lock() around virtnet_set_affinity(), which
reaches vp_set_vq_affinity(). That calls pci_irq_vector(), which takes
the per-device MSI mutex (&dev->msi.data->mutex) via
msi_domain_get_virq().
* &md->mutex -> &domain->mutex -> &group->mutex. MSI-X allocation of any
device behind the IOMMU holds the MSI mutex while allocating interrupts
through the IRQ domain hierarchy. The MSI parent domain (GICv2m, or ITS
likewise) calls iommu_dma_prepare_msi() from its .alloc() to map the MSI
doorbell, which takes the IOMMU group mutex.
* &group->mutex -> cpu_hotplug_lock. bus_iommu_probe() calls
iommu_setup_dma_ops() under the group mutex; initializing the IOVA
rcaches registers a cpuhp instance, which takes cpu_hotplug_lock.
The cycle only became complete since commit 288683c92b1a ("iommu: Make
iommu_dma_prepare_msi() into a generic operation"), where
iommu_dma_prepare_msi() switched to use the group mutex.
Caching the IRQ number in virtio_pci_vq_info {} (and making
vp_set_vq_affinity() use the cached value) removes the first dependency.
But I'm not sure if this is an appropriate fix. Please have a look.
---8<---
diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c
index b90c174450b2..2f42300a8a84 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c
@@ -224,6 +224,16 @@ static struct virtqueue *vp_setup_vq(struct virtio_device *vdev, unsigned int in
goto out_info;
info->vq = vq;
+
+ /*
+ * Cache the Linux IRQ number so that later users (e.g.
+ * vp_set_vq_affinity() from cpu hotplug locked contexts)
+ * don't have to take the MSI mutex via pci_irq_vector().
+ */
+ info->virq = 0;
+ if (msix_vec != VIRTIO_MSI_NO_VECTOR)
+ info->virq = pci_irq_vector(vp_dev->pci_dev, msix_vec);
+
if (callback) {
spin_lock_irqsave(&vp_dev->lock, flags);
if (!vp_is_slow_path_vector(msix_vec))
@@ -571,7 +581,7 @@ int vp_set_vq_affinity(struct virtqueue *vq, const struct cpumask *cpu_mask)
if (vp_dev->msix_enabled) {
mask = vp_dev->msix_affinity_masks[info->msix_vector];
- irq = pci_irq_vector(vp_dev->pci_dev, info->msix_vector);
+ irq = info->virq;
if (!cpu_mask)
irq_update_affinity_hint(irq, NULL);
else {
diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.h b/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.h
index 8cd01de27baf..18b15a5f84ae 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.h
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.h
@@ -40,6 +40,9 @@ struct virtio_pci_vq_info {
/* MSI-X vector (or none) */
unsigned int msix_vector;
+
+ /* Linux IRQ number of msix_vector, or 0 if not mapped */
+ unsigned int virq;
};
struct virtio_pci_admin_vq {
Thanks,
Zenghui
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