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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: boot failure after merge of the final tree (tip
 related)
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:48:30 +1000
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On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 16:12 +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> 
> Caused by commit bd6d29c25bb1a24a4c160ec5de43e0004e01f72b ("lockstat:
> Make lockstat counting per cpu").  This added a WARN_ON_ONCE to
> debug_atomic_inc() which is called from trace_hardirqs_on_caller()
> with
> irqs enabled.
> 
> Line 2301 is:
> 
>         if (unlikely(curr->hardirqs_enabled)) {
>                 debug_atomic_inc(redundant_hardirqs_on);   <--- 2301
>                 return;
>         }
> 
> This is especially bad since on PowerPC, WARN_ON is a TRAP and the
> return
> path from the TRAP also calls trace_hardirqs_on_caller(), so the TRAP
> recurses ... 

I think this is because our syscall entry pretty much force-enable irqs.

I remember deciding back then that getting lockdep balanced in that area
was tricky and I didn't do it to avoid adding more overhead to the
syscall path but I suppose I could revisit if necessary.

Cheers,
Ben.