From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
To: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Cc: "Michael L. Semon" <mlsemon35@gmail.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 3.14.0+/x86: lockdep and mutexes not getting along
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 12:15:44 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140410091544.GA23433@node.dhcp.inet.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1397108579.2586.15.camel@j-VirtualBox>
On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 10:42:59PM -0700, Jason Low wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-04-09 at 15:19 +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 01:12:14AM -0400, Michael L. Semon wrote:
> > > Hi! Starting early in this merge window for 3.15, lockdep has been
> > > giving me trouble. Normally, a splat will happen, lockdep will shut
> > > itself off, and my i686 Pentium 4 PC will continue. Now, after the
> > > splat, it will allow one key of input at either a VGA console or over
> > > serial. After that, only the magic SysRq keys and KDB still work.
> > > File activity stops, and many processes are stuck in the D state.
> > >
> > > Bisect brought me here:
> > >
> > > root@plbearer:/usr/src/kernel-git/linux# git bisect good
> > > 6f008e72cd111a119b5d8de8c5438d892aae99eb is the first bad commit
> > > commit 6f008e72cd111a119b5d8de8c5438d892aae99eb
> > > Author: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> > > Date: Wed Mar 12 13:24:42 2014 +0100
> > >
> > > locking/mutex: Fix debug checks
> > >
> > > OK, so commit:
> > >
> > > 1d8fe7dc8078 ("locking/mutexes: Unlock the mutex without the wait_lock")
> > >
> > > generates this boot warning when CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES=y:
> > >
> > > WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 139 at /usr/src/linux-2.6/kernel/locking/mutex-debug.c:82 debug_mutex_unlock+0x155/0x180() DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(lock->owner != current)
> > >
> > > And that makes sense, because as soon as we release the lock a
> > > new owner can come in...
> > >
> > > One would think that !__mutex_slowpath_needs_to_unlock()
> > > implementations suffer the same, but for DEBUG we fall back to
> > > mutex-null.h which has an unconditional 1 for that.
> > >
> > > The mutex debug code requires the mutex to be unlocked after
> > > doing the debug checks, otherwise it can find inconsistent
> > > state.
> > >
> > > Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> > > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> > > Cc: jason.low2@hp.com
>
> Hello,
>
> As a starting point, would either of you like to test the following
> patch to see if it fixes the issue? This patch essentially generates the
> same code as in older kernels in the debug case. This applies on top of
> kernels with both commits 6f008e72cd11 and 1d8fe7dc8078.
I'm not able to trigger the lockdep report with the patch applied so far.
--
Kirill A. Shutemov
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-10 9:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-06 5:12 3.14.0+/x86: lockdep and mutexes not getting along Michael L. Semon
2014-04-09 12:19 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-04-10 5:42 ` Jason Low
2014-04-10 8:14 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-10 9:15 ` Kirill A. Shutemov [this message]
2014-04-10 11:42 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-10 9:18 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-10 14:15 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-11 13:59 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2014-04-14 7:22 ` [tip:core/urgent] locking/mutex: Fix debug_mutexes tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-10 17:14 ` 3.14.0+/x86: lockdep and mutexes not getting along Jason Low
2014-04-10 17:28 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-10 19:04 ` Jason Low
2014-04-10 23:26 ` Dave Jones
2014-04-10 23:30 ` Dave Jones
2014-04-11 3:48 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-04-11 13:41 ` Michael L. Semon
2014-04-10 8:12 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-10 8:13 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-10 14:29 ` cred_guard_mutex vs seq_file::lock [was: Re: 3.14.0+/x86: lockdep and mutexes not getting along] Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-11 14:50 ` David Howells
2014-04-11 15:07 ` Al Viro
2014-07-30 22:31 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-07-30 23:03 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-07-31 7:26 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
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