dwarf2 stuck Re: lockdep warning in i2c_transfer() with dibx000 DVB - input tree merge plans?

[Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>]

On Thursday 12 October 2006 15:33, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> (Andi on CC because of the DWARF2 unwinder stuck message)
> 
> when hotplugging AverTV DVB-T tuner, I get:
> 
> =============================================
> [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
> 2.6.19-rc1-mm1 #4
> ---------------------------------------------
> khubd/451 is trying to acquire lock:
> (&adap->bus_lock){--..}, at: [<f8902177>] i2c_transfer+0x23/0x40 
> [i2c_core]
> 
> but task is already holding lock:
> (&adap->bus_lock){--..}, at: [<f8902177>] i2c_transfer+0x23/0x40 
> [i2c_core]
> 
> other info that might help us debug this:
> 1 lock held by khubd/451:
> #0: (&adap->bus_lock){--..}, at: [<f8902177>] i2c_transfer+0x23/0x40 
> [i2c_core]
> 
> stack backtrace:
> [<c0103b69>] dump_trace+0x65/0x1a2
> [<c0103cb6>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x10/0x20
> [<c0103f84>] show_trace+0xa/0xc
> [<c0103f99>] dump_stack+0x13/0x15
> [<c0132ea4>] __lock_acquire+0x7bd/0xa05
> [<c01333c1>] lock_acquire+0x5c/0x7b
> [<c034b683>] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0xab/0x1de
> [<f8902177>] i2c_transfer+0x23/0x40 [i2c_core]
> [<f88fa1bf>] dibx000_i2c_gated_tuner_xfer+0x166/0x185 [dibx000_common]
> [<f8902183>] i2c_transfer+0x2f/0x40 [i2c_core]
> [<f891f04b>] mt2060_readreg+0x4b/0x69 [mt2060]
> [<f891f45e>] mt2060_attach+0x40/0x1ea [mt2060]
> [<f895f468>] dibusb_dib3000mc_tuner_attach+0x126/0x16c 
> [dvb_usb_dibusb_common]
> [<d10ea000>] 0xd10ea000
> DWARF2 unwinder stuck at 0xd10ea000

Hmm, no assembly code or anything. Jan, do you have any ideas?
This looks just like a simple callback that goes over a module
boundary.

-Andi

> Leftover inexact backtrace:
> [<f88f3f7f>] dvb_usb_adapter_frontend_init+0xb9/0xd7 [dvb_usb]
> [<f88f36e5>] dvb_usb_device_init+0x383/0x46e [dvb_usb]
> [<f895c08a>] a800_probe+0x11/0x13 [dvb_usb_a800]
> [<c02bde12>] usb_probe_interface+0x5c/0x7e
> [<c0257384>] really_probe+0x5e/0xbd
> [<c02576c7>] __device_attach+0x0/0x5
> [<c02569ba>] bus_for_each_drv+0x35/0x5d
> [<c0257453>] device_attach+0x60/0x74
> [<c02576c7>] __device_attach+0x0/0x5
> [<c0256a2f>] bus_attach_device+0x1e/0x41
> [<c0255d49>] device_add+0x347/0x4f1
> [<c015ed9d>] kfree+0xb5/0xbc
> [<c02bd07d>] usb_set_configuration+0x30d/0x35e
> [<c02c25ec>] generic_probe+0x154/0x188
> [<c02bd8cc>] usb_probe_device+0x32/0x37
> [<c0257384>] really_probe+0x5e/0xbd
> [<c02576c7>] __device_attach+0x0/0x5
> [<c02569ba>] bus_for_each_drv+0x35/0x5d
> [<c0257453>] device_attach+0x60/0x74
> [<c02576c7>] __device_attach+0x0/0x5
> [<c0256a2f>] bus_attach_device+0x1e/0x41
> [<c0255d49>] device_add+0x347/0x4f1
> [<c02b8236>] __usb_new_device+0x118/0x14a
> [<c02ba166>] hub_thread+0x636/0x974
> [<c012c656>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2d
> [<c02b9b30>] hub_thread+0x0/0x974
> [<c012c607>] kthread+0xc1/0xee
> [<c012c546>] kthread+0x0/0xee
> [<c01038a3>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
> =======================                                   
> 
> This could be easily solved, as this is recursive locking situation with 
> child-parent hierarchy.
> 
> I would like to use the same approach we used with Peter Zijlstra to fix 
> lockdep warnings in drivers/input/serio.c - i.e. taking advantage of newly 
> introduced lockdep_set_subclass(), to do it in a clean way.
> 
> However the patch introducing lockdep_set_subclass() is currently only in 
> Dmitry's input tree (commit 4dfbb9d8c6cbfc32faa5c71145bd2a43e1f8237c) - 
> but the fix for DVB/I2C hardly belongs to input tree, so I am quite stuck.
> 
> What are the merge plans of input tree? Is it going in some short time 
> into mainline or into -mm?
> 
> Thanks,
>