Re: v2.6.26-rc7/cgroups: circular locking dependency

From: Cyrill Gorcunov
Date: Sun Jun 22 2008 - 12:02:36 EST


[KOSAKI Motohiro - Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:34:04AM +0900]
| CC'ed Paul Jackson
|
| it seems typical ABBA deadlock.
| I think cpuset use cgrou_lock() by mistake.
|
| IMHO, cpuset_handle_cpuhp() sholdn't use cgroup_lock() and
| shouldn't call rebuild_sched_domains().
|
|
| -> #1 (cgroup_mutex){--..}:
| [<c015a435>] __lock_acquire+0xf45/0x1040
| [<c015a5c8>] lock_acquire+0x98/0xd0
| [<c05416d1>] mutex_lock_nested+0xb1/0x300
| [<c0160e6f>] cgroup_lock+0xf/0x20 cgroup_lock
| [<c0164750>] cpuset_handle_cpuhp+0x20/0x180
| [<c014ea77>] notifier_call_chain+0x37/0x70
| [<c014eae9>] __raw_notifier_call_chain+0x19/0x20
| [<c051f8c8>] _cpu_down+0x78/0x240 cpu_hotplug.lock
| [<c051fabb>] cpu_down+0x2b/0x40 cpu_add_remove_lock
| [<c0520cd9>] store_online+0x39/0x80
| [<c02f627b>] sysdev_store+0x2b/0x40
| [<c01d3372>] sysfs_write_file+0xa2/0x100
| [<c0195486>] vfs_write+0x96/0x130
| [<c0195b4d>] sys_write+0x3d/0x70
| [<c010831b>] sysenter_past_esp+0x78/0xd1
| [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff
|
| -> #0 (&cpu_hotplug.lock){--..}:
| [<c0159fe5>] __lock_acquire+0xaf5/0x1040
| [<c015a5c8>] lock_acquire+0x98/0xd0
| [<c05416d1>] mutex_lock_nested+0xb1/0x300
| [<c015efbc>] get_online_cpus+0x2c/0x40 cpu_hotplug.lock
| [<c0163e6d>] rebuild_sched_domains+0x7d/0x3a0
| [<c01653a4>] cpuset_common_file_write+0x204/0x440 cgroup_lock
| [<c0162bc7>] cgroup_file_write+0x67/0x130
| [<c0195486>] vfs_write+0x96/0x130
| [<c0195b4d>] sys_write+0x3d/0x70
| [<c010831b>] sysenter_past_esp+0x78/0xd1
| [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff
|
|
| > Hi,
| >
| > I decided to see what cgroups is all about, and followed the instructions
| > in Documentation/cgroups.txt :-) It happened when I did this:
| >
| > [root@damson /dev/cgroup/Vegard 0]
| > # echo 1 > cpuset.cpus
| >
| > I can also provide the kernel config if necessary.
| >
| >
| > Vegard
| >
| >
| > =======================================================
| > [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
| > 2.6.26-rc7 #25
| > -------------------------------------------------------
| > bash/10032 is trying to acquire lock:
| > (&cpu_hotplug.lock){--..}, at: [<c015efbc>] get_online_cpus+0x2c/0x40
| >
| > but task is already holding lock:
| > (cgroup_mutex){--..}, at: [<c0160e6f>] cgroup_lock+0xf/0x20
| >
| > which lock already depends on the new lock.
|

Thanks Kosaki!

- Cyrill -
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