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From: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Zdenek Kabelac <zdenek.kabelac@gmail.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: INFO: possible circular locking dependency at  cleanup_workqueue_thread
Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 15:09:20 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d82e647a0905200009pc894d4yed0f81c83443a0ee@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1242802064.31350.12.camel@johannes.local>

2009/5/20 Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>:
> On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 11:36 +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
>
>> > Anyway, you can have a deadlock like this:
>> >
>> > CPU 3                   CPU 2                           CPU 1
>> >                                                        suspend/hibernate
>> >                        something:
>> >                        rtnl_lock()                     device_pm_lock()
>> >                                                        -> mutex_lock(&dpm_list_mtx)
>> >
>> >                        mutex_lock(&dpm_list_mtx)
>>
>> Would you give a explaination why mutex_lock(&dpm_list_mtx) runs in CPU2
>> and depends on rtnl_lock?
>
> Why not? Something is registering a hotplugged netdev.

I see. I just feel a bit curious how lockdep may build the dependency
of dpm_list_mtx on rtnl_lock,  and it  is certainly related with
lockdep internal.

-- 
Lei Ming

  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-20  7:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-12  7:59 INFO: possible circular locking dependency at cleanup_workqueue_thread Zdenek Kabelac
2009-05-17  7:18 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-17 10:42   ` Ming Lei
2009-05-17 11:18   ` Johannes Berg
2009-05-17 13:10     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-18 19:47     ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-05-18 20:00       ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-18 20:16         ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-05-18 20:40           ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-18 22:14             ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-05-19  9:13               ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-19 10:49                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-19 14:53                   ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-05-19  8:51       ` Johannes Berg
2009-05-19 12:00         ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-05-19 15:33           ` Johannes Berg
2009-05-19 16:09             ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-05-19 16:27               ` Johannes Berg
2009-05-19 18:51                 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-05-22 10:46                   ` Johannes Berg
2009-05-22 22:23                     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-05-23  8:21                       ` Johannes Berg
2009-05-23 23:20                         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-05-24  3:29                           ` Ming Lei
2009-05-24 11:09                             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-05-24 12:48                               ` Ming Lei
2009-05-24 19:09                                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-05-24 14:30                           ` Alan Stern
2009-05-24 19:06                             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-05-20  3:36             ` Ming Lei
2009-05-20  6:47               ` Johannes Berg
2009-05-20  7:09                 ` Ming Lei [this message]
2009-05-20  7:12                   ` Johannes Berg
2009-05-20  8:21                     ` Ming Lei
2009-05-20  8:45                       ` Johannes Berg
2009-05-22  8:03                 ` Ming Lei
2009-05-22  8:11                   ` Johannes Berg
2009-05-20 12:18   ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-20 13:18     ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-05-20 13:44       ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-20 13:55         ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-05-20 14:12           ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-24 18:58 ` Peter Zijlstra

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