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* [virtio_pci?] WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
@ 2026-09-22 12:37 Zenghui Yu
  2026-09-22 12:42 ` Zenghui Yu
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Zenghui Yu @ 2026-09-22 12:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: virtualization, linux-kernel
  Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin, jasowangio, eperezma, xuanzhuo, nicolinc, jgg

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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