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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, penberg@kernel.org,
	mpm@selenic.com, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: lockdep recursive locking detected (rcu_kthread / __cache_free)
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 23:06:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1317675980.9417.1.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1110031540560.11713@router.home>

On Mon, 2011-10-03 at 15:46 -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Oct 2011, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> 
> > The first lock was acquired here in an RCU callback.  The later lock that
> > lockdep complained about appears to have been acquired from a recursive
> > call to __cache_free(), with no help from RCU.  This looks to me like
> > one of the issues that arise from the slab allocator using itself to
> > allocate slab metadata.
> 
> Right. However, this is a false positive since the slab cache with
> the metadata is different from the slab caches with the slab data. The slab
> cache with the metadata does not use itself any metadata slab caches.

Sure, but we're supposed to have annotated that.. see
init_node_lock_keys()

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-03 21:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20111003175322.GA26122@sucs.org>
2011-10-03 20:31 ` lockdep recursive locking detected (rcu_kthread / __cache_free) Paul E. McKenney
2011-10-03 20:46   ` Christoph Lameter
2011-10-03 21:06     ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2011-10-03 21:47     ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-10-04 14:28       ` Christoph Lameter
2011-10-04 14:40         ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-10-04 14:50           ` Christoph Lameter
2011-10-04 15:09             ` Peter Zijlstra

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