From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from frasgout.his.huawei.com (frasgout.his.huawei.com [185.176.79.56]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C26882CA1 for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2022 10:52:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fraeml741-chm.china.huawei.com (unknown [172.18.147.206]) by frasgout.his.huawei.com (SkyGuard) with ESMTP id 4Jp1qj6zX4z67QKq; Tue, 1 Feb 2022 18:48:17 +0800 (CST) Received: from lhreml710-chm.china.huawei.com (10.201.108.61) by fraeml741-chm.china.huawei.com (10.206.15.222) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256) id 15.1.2308.21; Tue, 1 Feb 2022 11:52:55 +0100 Received: from localhost (10.202.226.41) by lhreml710-chm.china.huawei.com (10.201.108.61) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256) id 15.1.2308.21; Tue, 1 Feb 2022 10:52:54 +0000 Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2022 10:52:53 +0000 From: Jonathan Cameron To: Dan Williams CC: , Ben Widawsky , , Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 16/40] cxl/core/port: Use dedicated lock for decoder target list Message-ID: <20220201105253.00002f23@Huawei.com> In-Reply-To: <164367209095.208169.1171673319121271280.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com> References: <164316562430.3437160.122223070771602475.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com> <164367209095.208169.1171673319121271280.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com> Organization: Huawei Technologies Research and Development (UK) Ltd. X-Mailer: Claws Mail 4.0.0 (GTK+ 3.24.29; i686-w64-mingw32) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: nvdimm@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [10.202.226.41] X-ClientProxiedBy: lhreml733-chm.china.huawei.com (10.201.108.84) To lhreml710-chm.china.huawei.com (10.201.108.61) X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected On Mon, 31 Jan 2022 15:35:18 -0800 Dan Williams wrote: > Lockdep reports: > > ====================================================== > WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected > 5.16.0-rc1+ #142 Tainted: G OE > ------------------------------------------------------ > cxl/1220 is trying to acquire lock: > ffff979b85475460 (kn->active#144){++++}-{0:0}, at: __kernfs_remove+0x1ab/0x1e0 > > but task is already holding lock: > ffff979b87ab38e8 (&dev->lockdep_mutex#2/4){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: cxl_remove_ep+0x50c/0x5c0 [cxl_core] > > ...where cxl_remove_ep() is a helper that wants to delete ports while > holding a lock on the host device for that port. That sets up a lockdep > violation whereby target_list_show() can not rely holding the decoder's > device lock while walking the target_list. Switch to a dedicated seqlock > for this purpose. > > Reported-by: Ben Widawsky > Signed-off-by: Dan Williams Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron