Re: 2.6.34-rc5-git3 - INFO: possible circular locking dependencydetected - (s_active#91){++++.+}, at: [<ffffffff81142c4a>]sysfs_addrm_finish+0x31/0x50

From: Dave Jones
Date: Fri Apr 23 2010 - 22:11:53 EST


On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 09:56:20PM -0400, Miles Lane wrote:
> [ 2564.720395] Disabling non-boot CPUs ...
> [ 2564.764388]
> [ 2564.764391] =======================================================
> [ 2564.764395] [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
> [ 2564.764400] 2.6.34-rc5-git3 #22
> [ 2564.764403] -------------------------------------------------------
> [ 2564.764408] pm-suspend/5388 is trying to acquire lock:
> [ 2564.764412] (s_active#91){++++.+}, at: [<ffffffff81142c4a>]
> sysfs_addrm_finish+0x31/0x50
> [ 2564.764432]
> [ 2564.764434] but task is already holding lock:
> [ 2564.764437] (&per_cpu(cpu_policy_rwsem, cpu)){+++++.}, at:
> [<ffffffff8132dd4d>] lock_policy_rwsem_write+0x4a/0x7b
> [ 2564.764450]
> [ 2564.764451] which lock already depends on the new lock.
> [ 2564.764454]


gah, this has been fixed in cpufreq.git for a while. I thought I'd
already pushed that along to Linus. I just sent him another pull request.

thanks,

Dave

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