circular locking dependency on shutdown

From: Johannes Berg
Date: Thu Jan 29 2009 - 13:51:27 EST


Hi,

Every time I shut down my machine with a 2.6.29-rc2 kernel, I get a
lockdep report that scrolls off. I tried capturing it on video, the
relevant frames are here:
http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/files/shutdown-lockdep-images.tar.bz2

Some info I transscribed:

halt is trying to acquire lock
(&per_cpu(cpu_policy_rwsem, cpu)){---}

but task is already holding lock
(&cpu_hotplug.lock){--..}

which already yadda yadda

lock chain:
#1 (&cpu_hotplug.lock){--..}
...
get_online_cpus
#0 (&per_cpu(cpu_policy_rwsem, cpu))
...
disable_nonboot_cpus

stacktrace:
down_write
lock_policy_rwsem_write
cpufreq_cpu_callback
notifier_call_chain
disable_nonboot_cpus
kernel_power_off
...


johannes

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