Re: [BUG] Lockdep recursive locking in kmem_cache_free

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 13:18 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 08:35 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > > On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > 
> > > > If you need more info, I can add debugs. It happens every bootup.
> > > 
> > > Could you tell me why _spin_lock and _spin_unlock seem 
> > > to be calling into the slab allocator? Also what is child_rip()? Cannot 
> > > find that function upstream.
> > 
> > arch/x86_64/kernel/entry.S
> 
> Ah. Ok wrong arch. Why does _spin_unlock_irq call child_rip and then end 
> up in the slab allocator?
> 
> Why does _spin_lock call kmem_cache_free?
> 
> Is the stack trace an accurate representation of the calling sequence?

Probably not. Thats a call tail optimization artifact. I retest with
UNWIND info =y 

	tglx


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