Re: Regression - locking (all from 2.6.28)
From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Mar 03 2009 - 13:13:18 EST
On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 12:11 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Mar 1 00:07:03 localhost kernel: [ 86.440261] =========================================================
> > Mar 1 00:07:03 localhost kernel: [ 86.440266] [ INFO: possible irq lock inversion dependency detected ]
> > Mar 1 00:07:03 localhost kernel: [ 86.440271] 2.6.29-rc6-mm1-hanny #17
> > Mar 1 00:07:03 localhost kernel: [ 86.440273] ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> I stared at this for a while, but my brain broke trying to work out
> what lockdep is trying to tell us.
>
> > Mar 1 00:07:03 localhost kernel: [ 86.440277] Xorg/2733 just changed the state of lock:
> > Mar 1 00:07:03 localhost kernel: [ 86.440280] (fasync_lock){.-....}, at: [<c01952bb>] kill_fasync+0x20/0x3a
> > Mar 1 00:07:03 localhost kernel: [ 86.440292] but this lock took another, HARDIRQ-READ-irq-unsafe lock in the past:
> > Mar 1 00:07:03 localhost kernel: [ 86.440296] (&f->f_lock){+.+...}
>
> This message needs help. A lock cannot "take" another lock.
It seemed a simple enough way to tell that the latter lock nests inside
the former lock.
So what its saying is that we have:
fasync_lock
f->f_lock
nesting, and fasync_lock got used in hardirq context, but the lock that
was previously found to nest inside, was an IRQ-unsafe lock.
So $CODE code take f->f_lock, then IRQ could happen and fasync_lock,
f->f_lock could happen and we'd be stuck.
Would something like:
"but this lock had a %s-irq-unsafe nestee in the past:" read better?
> And why
> is f_lock described as "HARDIRQ-READ-irq-unsafe"? It's a spinlock and
> the "READ" part is not relevant.
I think that's a bug due to the recent irq state tracking generalization
patches, will hunt.
> > Mar 1 00:07:03 localhost kernel: [ 86.440299]
> > Mar 1 00:07:03 localhost kernel: [ 86.440300] and interrupts could create inverse lock ordering between them.
> > Mar 1 00:07:03 localhost kernel: [ 86.440302]
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