Re: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c

From: Sudeep Holla
Date: Fri Nov 09 2018 - 12:28:19 EST


On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 4:10 PM Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> See bb42ca474010 and d003d029cea8 for details.
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> Now, activating this workaround leads to lockdep being really angry,
> most likely because the cpus_read_lock is not taken, which is a change
> in behaviour...
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> I'm trying to dig into this now.
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Yes we found similar issue in kernel/sched/core.c sched_init_smp
There's a fix with detailed description in -next
(Commit 40fa3780bac2 ("sched/core: Take the hotplug lock in sched_init_smp()")

The behaviour changed since commit cb538267ea1e ("jump_label/lockdep:
Assert we hold the hotplug lock for _cpuslocked() operations")

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Regards,
Sudeep