Re: [LKP] 3f906ba236 [ 71.192813] WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Wed Sep 05 2018 - 09:02:48 EST


On Wed, 5 Sep 2018, kernel test robot wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> 0day kernel testing robot got the below dmesg and the first bad commit is
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
>
> commit 3f906ba23689a3f824424c50f3ae937c2c70f676
> Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> AuthorDate: Mon Jul 10 15:50:09 2017 -0700
> Commit: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CommitDate: Mon Jul 10 16:32:33 2017 -0700

So it identified a more than one year old commit. Great.

> vm86 returned ENOSYS, marking as inactive. 20044 iterations. [F:14867 S:5032 HI:3700] [ 57.651003] synth uevent: /module/pcmcia_core: unknown uevent action string [ 71.189062] [ 71.191953] ====================================================== [ 71.192813] WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected [ 71.193664] 4.12.0-10480-g3f906ba #1 Not tainted [ 71.194355] ------------------------------------------------------ [ 71.195211] trinity-c0/1666 is trying to acquire lock: [ 71.195958] (mem_hotplug_lock.rw_sem){.+.+.+}, at: show_slab_objects+0x14b/0x440 [ 71.197284] [ 71.197284] but task is already holding lock:

along with completely unparseable information. What am I supposed to do
with this mail?

Thanks,

tglx