Re: lockdep warns: cpu_hotplug_lock.rw_sem --> slab_mutex --> kn->count#39

[Christopher Lameter]

On Mon, 9 Dec 2019, Daniel Wagner wrote:

> [    5.038862]
> [    5.038862] -> #2 (kn->count#39){++++}:
> [    5.039329]        __kernfs_remove+0x240/0x2e0
> [    5.039717]        kernfs_remove_by_name_ns+0x3c/0x80
> [    5.040159]        sysfs_slab_add+0x184/0x250

sysfs_slab_add should not be called under any lock. But it happens during
an initcall (sysfs_slab_init) when the kmalloc slab array is being set up.

And the problems results from a hotplug event? During system bringup when
the slab caches have not been setup yet?

Is this really something that can happen?