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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Sebastian Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>, Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: possible recursive locking detected cache_alloc_refill() + cache_flusharray()
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:34:21 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1107172333340.2702@ionos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110716211850.GA23917@breakpoint.cc>

On Sat, 16 Jul 2011, Sebastian Siewior wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> just hit the following with full debuging turned on:
> 
> | =============================================
> | [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
> | 3.0.0-rc7-00088-g1765a36 #64
> | ---------------------------------------------
> | udevd/1054 is trying to acquire lock:
> |  (&(&parent->list_lock)->rlock){..-...}, at: [<c00bf640>] cache_alloc_refill+0xac/0x868
> |
> | but task is already holding lock:
> |  (&(&parent->list_lock)->rlock){..-...}, at: [<c00be47c>] cache_flusharray+0x58/0x148
> |
> | other info that might help us debug this:
> |  Possible unsafe locking scenario:
> |
> |        CPU0
> |        ----
> |   lock(&(&parent->list_lock)->rlock);
> |   lock(&(&parent->list_lock)->rlock);

Known problem. Pekka is looking into it.

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-17 21:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-16 21:18 Sebastian Siewior
2011-07-17 21:34 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2011-07-20 13:21   ` Pekka Enberg
2011-07-20 13:30     ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-20 13:52       ` Pekka Enberg
2011-07-20 14:00         ` Christoph Lameter
2011-07-20 15:44         ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-21  7:14           ` Sebastian Siewior
2011-07-22  8:17             ` Pekka Enberg
2011-07-22 13:26             ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-23 11:22               ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2011-07-28 10:46           ` Pekka Enberg
2011-07-28 10:56             ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2011-07-28 10:56             ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-28 10:55               ` Pekka Enberg

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