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From: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
To: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>,
	kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@intel.com>,
	lkp@01.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-serial@vger.kernel.org,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>,
	Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [LKP] [tty] c96cf923a9: WARNING:possible_circular_locking_dependency_detected
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 14:04:32 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181212050432.GE431@jagdpanzerIV> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181212034252.GD431@jagdpanzerIV>

On (12/12/18 12:42), Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
[..]
> > >> [   87.255156]        CPU0                    CPU1
> > >> [   87.255813]        ----                    ----
> > >> [   87.256460]   lock(&port_lock_key);
> > >> [   87.256973]                                lock(console_owner);
> > >> [   87.257829]                                lock(&port_lock_key);
> > >> [   87.258680]   lock(&obj_hash[i].lock);
> 
> So it's like
> 
> 	CPU0					CPU1
> 
> 	uart_shutdown()				db->lock
> 	 uart_port->lock			 debug_print_object()
> 	  free_page()				  printk
> 	   debug_check_no_obj_freed		   uart_port->lock
> 	    db->lock
> 
> 
> In this particular case we probably can just move free_page()
> out of uart_port lock scope. Note that free_page()->MM can printk()
> on its own.
> 
[..]
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1542653726-5655-8-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com/T/#u

That said, I'd first try Waiman's patch. The one I suggested is
more of a defense move - there are too many things happening under
uart_port->lock. This is not the first time we see lockdep complaining
about the way uart and the rest of the kernel interact.

	-ss

  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-12  5:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-11  9:11 [LKP] [tty] c96cf923a9: WARNING:possible_circular_locking_dependency_detected kernel test robot
2018-12-11 13:49 ` Jiri Slaby
2018-12-11 20:59   ` Dmitry Safonov
2018-12-12  3:42     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-12-12  5:04       ` Sergey Senozhatsky [this message]
2018-12-12 15:12         ` Waiman Long
2018-12-12  9:07       ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-12-13  5:38         ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-12-12 14:54       ` Dmitry Safonov
2018-12-13  2:19         ` Sergey Senozhatsky

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