Re: WARNING: at kernel/lockdep.c:690 __lock_acquire+0x168/0x164b()

[Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>]

On (10/20/11 20:39), Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 03:32:32PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> > Could you try to revert f59de8992aa6 ("lockdep: Clear whole lockdep_map on 
> > initialization") with this patch and see if it helps?  Thanks.
> > ---
> > diff --git a/kernel/lockdep.c b/kernel/lockdep.c
> > --- a/kernel/lockdep.c
> > +++ b/kernel/lockdep.c
> > @@ -2874,7 +2874,10 @@ static int mark_lock(struct task_struct *curr, struct held_lock *this,
> >  void lockdep_init_map(struct lockdep_map *lock, const char *name,
> >  		      struct lock_class_key *key, int subclass)
> >  {
> > -	memset(lock, 0, sizeof(*lock));
> > +	int i;
> > +
> > +	for (i = 0; i < NR_LOCKDEP_CACHING_CLASSES; i++)
> > +		lock->class_cache[i] = NULL;
> >  
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_LOCK_STAT
> >  	lock->cpu = raw_smp_processor_id();
> 
> FWIW,
> 
> the box has been running here with f59de8992aa6 reverted for a couple of
> days now and no sign of the warning. I'll keep watching it but it looks
> ok so far, so David, you could've nailed it.
> 

Hello,
Well, the same with me. My laptop has been running with reverted f59de8992aa6 without any
problems so far. Yet, I'm not sure I understand how memset() and loop could
produce different results.

commit in question (f59de8992aa6dc85e81aadc26b0f69e17809721d) has been merge on
Jul 14 15:19:09 2011 +0200, so, Borislav, you probably should have seen it
not only on 3.1-rc5, 3.1-rc6,..., but even on 3.0.


	Sergey