Re: [BUG] perf: hard lockup when using perf-sched

[Mike Galbraith]

On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 18:23 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 11:11:33AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:

> > perf: fix perf sched record forkbomb deadlock
> > 
> > perf sched record can deadlock a box should the holder of handle->data->lock
> > take an interrupt, and then attempt to acquire an rq lock held by a CPU trying
> > to acquire the same lock.  Disable interrupts.
> 
> 
> 
> Aah.
> 
> So the scenario is the following inversion?
> 
> 	CPU0				CPU1
> sched event with rq->lock held
> 				grab handle->data->lock
> spin on handle->data->lock
> 				interrupt
> 				try to grab rq->lock

Yeah, handle->data->lock holder dare not try to grab any rq lock because
of sched event with rq->lock held.

	-Mike

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