Is this telling me that I'm no longer allowed to take a read_lock() in a callback for an HRTIMER_MODE_ABS_HARD timer? Is that intentional? If I must, I can probably cope with this by using read_trylock() instead. The object being locked is a cache, and we opportunistically try to use it from the fast path but fall back to a slow path in process context which will revalidate and try again. So if someone *has* taken the write lock, it's a fairly safe bet that the cache is going to be invalidated and we were going to take the slow path anyway. [ 62.336965] ============================= [ 62.336973] [ BUG: Invalid wait context ] [ 62.336992] 6.7.0-rc1+ #1437 Tainted: G I [ 62.337001] ----------------------------- [ 62.337008] qemu-system-x86/1935 is trying to lock: [ 62.337017] ffffc900018fecc0 (&gpc->lock){....}-{3:3}, at: kvm_xen_set_evtchn_fast+0xe7/0x460 [kvm] [ 62.337133] other info that might help us debug this: [ 62.337142] context-{2:2} [ 62.337148] 2 locks held by qemu-system-x86/1935: [ 62.337156] #0: ffff888108f780b0 (&vcpu->mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x7f/0x730 [kvm] [ 62.337239] #1: ffffc900018ff2d8 (&kvm->srcu){.?.+}-{0:0}, at: kvm_xen_set_evtchn_fast+0xcd/0x460 [kvm] [ 62.337339] stack backtrace: [ 62.337346] CPU: 7 PID: 1935 Comm: qemu-system-x86 Tainted: G I 6.7.0-rc1+ #1437 [ 62.337370] Hardware name: Intel Corporation S2600CW/S2600CW, BIOS SE5C610.86B.01.01.0008.021120151325 02/11/2015 [ 62.337384] Call Trace: [ 62.337390] [ 62.337395] dump_stack_lvl+0x57/0x90 [ 62.337407] __lock_acquire+0x7bb/0xbb0 [ 62.337416] ? __lock_acquire+0x4f0/0xbb0 [ 62.337425] lock_acquire.part.0+0xad/0x240 [ 62.337433] ? kvm_xen_set_evtchn_fast+0xe7/0x460 [kvm] [ 62.337512] ? rcu_is_watching+0xd/0x40 [ 62.337520] ? lock_acquire+0xf2/0x110 [ 62.337529] __raw_read_lock_irqsave+0x4e/0xa0 [ 62.337538] ? kvm_xen_set_evtchn_fast+0xe7/0x460 [kvm] [ 62.337604] kvm_xen_set_evtchn_fast+0xe7/0x460 [kvm] [ 62.337669] ? kvm_xen_set_evtchn_fast+0xcd/0x460 [kvm] [ 62.337734] xen_timer_callback+0x86/0xc0 [kvm] [ 62.337799] ? __pfx_xen_timer_callback+0x10/0x10 [kvm] [ 62.337863] __hrtimer_run_queues+0x1b2/0x380 [ 62.337874] hrtimer_interrupt+0xfe/0x240 [ 62.337883] __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x85/0x1d0 [ 62.337893] sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x99/0xc0 [ 62.337905] [ 62.337910] [ 62.337914] asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 [ 62.337925] RIP: 0010:vcpu_enter_guest.constprop.0+0x9c5/0x1240 [kvm] [ 62.337994] Code: 00 00 48 89 df e8 9b e2 12 00 48 83 bb 38 08 00 00 00 0f 85 ac 01 00 00 c6 83 32 0b 00 00 01 e8 c1 e9 8a e0 fb 0f 1f 44 00 00 <48> 83 83 c0 1c 00 00 01 9c 58 0f 1f 40 00 48 89 c2 fa 0f 1f 44 00 [ 62.338241] RSP: 0018:ffffc90001923d70 EFLAGS: 00000206 [ 62.338465] RAX: 000000000002ce1d RBX: ffff888108f78000 RCX: 0000000000000040 [ 62.338692] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff82569339 RDI: ffffffff824f5def [ 62.338919] RBP: ffffc90001923de0 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 62.339172] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000 [ 62.339396] R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff888108f78000 [ 62.339617] ? vcpu_run+0x40/0x430 [kvm] [ 62.339888] vcpu_run+0x40/0x430 [kvm] [ 62.340173] kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x1da/0x680 [kvm] [ 62.340443] kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x1a1/0x730 [kvm] [ 62.340702] ? __fget_files+0xbc/0x190 [ 62.340915] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x93/0xd0 [ 62.341125] do_syscall_64+0x36/0xb0 [ 62.341335] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76 [ 62.341544] RIP: 0033:0x7f180b200ecd [ 62.341745] Code: 04 25 28 00 00 00 48 89 45 c8 31 c0 48 8d 45 10 c7 45 b0 10 00 00 00 48 89 45 b8 48 8d 45 d0 48 89 45 c0 b8 10 00 00 00 0f 05 <89> c2 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 1a 48 8b 45 c8 64 48 2b 04 25 28 00 00 00 [ 62.342178] RSP: 002b:00007f1802bb1560 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010 [ 62.342398] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00005601bc1b8530 RCX: 00007f180b200ecd [ 62.342616] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000ae80 RDI: 000000000000000c [ 62.342832] RBP: 00007f1802bb15b0 R08: 00005601ba5a27d0 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 62.343046] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000 [ 62.343256] R13: 0000000000000022 R14: 0000000000000007 R15: 00007ffeac3c08a0 [ 62.343463]