Re: v2.6.26-rc7/cgroups: circular locking dependency

From: Vegard Nossum
Date: Sun Jun 22 2008 - 05:43:06 EST


On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [Vegard Nossum - Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 07:38:59PM +0200]
> | =======================================================
> | [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
> | 2.6.26-rc7 #25
> | -------------------------------------------------------
> | bash/10032 is trying to acquire lock:
> | (&cpu_hotplug.lock){--..}, at: [<c015efbc>] get_online_cpus+0x2c/0x40
> |
> | but task is already holding lock:
> | (cgroup_mutex){--..}, at: [<c0160e6f>] cgroup_lock+0xf/0x20

...

> Hi Vegard,
>
> would be interesting to see your config please

Here is my config and vmlinux:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/vegard/kernels/20080621-v2.6.26-rc7/

By the way, I was doing CPU hotplug/unplug at the time.

Thanks :)


Vegard

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