Greetings, I got this lockdep warning and the first bad commit is d206e09036d6201f90b2719484c8a59526c46125 ("Merge branch 'for-3.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup") [ 1.969480] [ 1.969686] ====================================================== [ 1.970200] [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] [ 1.970200] 3.7.0-05910-g6be35c7 #1 Not tainted [ 1.970200] ------------------------------------------------------- [ 1.970200] swapper/0/1 is trying to acquire lock: [ 1.970200] (cgroup_mutex){+.+...}, at: [<81068053>] cgroup_lock+0xf/0x11 [ 1.970200] [ 1.970200] but task is already holding lock: [ 1.970200] (cpu_hotplug.lock){+.+.+.}, at: [<8102674b>] cpu_hotplug_begin+0x1d/0x40 [ 1.970200] [ 1.970200] which lock already depends on the new lock. [ 1.970200] [ 1.970200] Thanks, Fengguang