Re: rcu: BUG: spinlock recursion on CPU#3, trinity-child19/5970

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Jul 02 2012 - 06:32:24 EST


On Fri, 2012-06-29 at 23:40 +0200, Sasha Levin wrote:
>
> The bad news are that what you saw was a lockdep enabled run
> (CONFIG_PROVE_RCU is enabled, and lockdep was enabled). There were no
> lockdep warnings at any point while reproducing it.

rcu_switch_from() -> rcu_preempt_note_context_switch() is called _after_
the lockdep context switch annotation. Therefore lockdep things the prev
task isn't holding any locks anymore.


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