From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752733AbdJ3PW3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Oct 2017 11:22:29 -0400 Received: from merlin.infradead.org ([205.233.59.134]:34210 "EHLO merlin.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752064AbdJ3PW2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Oct 2017 11:22:28 -0400 Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 16:22:00 +0100 From: Peter Zijlstra To: Byungchul Park Cc: Michal Hocko , Dmitry Vyukov , syzbot , Andrew Morton , Dan Williams , Johannes Weiner , Jan Kara , jglisse@redhat.com, LKML , linux-mm@kvack.org, shli@fb.com, syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com, Thomas Gleixner , Vlastimil Babka , ying.huang@intel.com, kernel-team@lge.com Subject: Re: possible deadlock in lru_add_drain_all Message-ID: <20171030152200.ayfnewoqkxbuk4zh@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> References: <089e0825eec8955c1f055c83d476@google.com> <20171027093418.om5e566srz2ztsrk@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20171027134234.7dyx4oshjwd44vqx@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20171030082203.4xvq2af25shfci2z@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20171030100921.GA18085@X58A-UD3R> <20171030151009.ip4k7nwan7muouca@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20171030151009.ip4k7nwan7muouca@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170609 (1.8.3) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 04:10:09PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > I can indeed confirm it's running old code; cpuhp_state is no more. > > However, that splat translates like: > > __cpuhp_setup_state() > #0 cpus_read_lock() > __cpuhp_setup_state_cpuslocked() > #1 mutex_lock(&cpuhp_state_mutex) > > > > __cpuhp_state_add_instance() > #2 mutex_lock(&cpuhp_state_mutex) > cpuhp_issue_call() > cpuhp_invoke_ap_callback() > #3 wait_for_completion() > > msr_device_create() > ... > #4 filename_create() > #3 complete() > So all this you can get in a single callchain when you do something shiny like: modprobe msr > do_splice() > #4 file_start_write() > do_splice_from() > iter_file_splice_write() > #5 pipe_lock() > vfs_iter_write() > ... > #6 inode_lock() > > This is a splice into a devtmpfs file > sys_fcntl() > do_fcntl() > shmem_fcntl() > #5 inode_lock() #6 (obviously) > shmem_wait_for_pins() > if (!scan) > lru_add_drain_all() > #0 cpus_read_lock() > Is the right fcntl() So 3 different callchains, and *splat*..