Re: [Patch v2] sysfs: add lockdep class support to s_active

From: Cong Wang
Date: Fri Feb 05 2010 - 02:26:11 EST


Xiaotian Feng wrote:
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Amerigo Wang <amwang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Recently we met a lockdep warning from sysfs during s2ram or cpu hotplug.
As reported by several people, it is something like:

[ 6967.926563] ACPI: Preparing to enter system sleep state S3
[ 6967.956156] Disabling non-boot CPUs ...
[ 6967.970401]
[ 6967.970408] =============================================
[ 6967.970419] [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
[ 6967.970431] 2.6.33-rc2-git6 #27
[ 6967.970439] ---------------------------------------------
[ 6967.970450] pm-suspend/22147 is trying to acquire lock:
[ 6967.970460] (s_active){++++.+}, at: [<c10d2941>]
sysfs_hash_and_remove+0x3d/0x4f
[ 6967.970493]
[ 6967.970497] but task is already holding lock:
[ 6967.970506] (s_active){++++.+}, at: [<c10d4110>]
sysfs_get_active_two+0x16/0x36
[...]

Eric already provides a patch for this[1], but it still can't fix the
problem. Based on his work and Peter's suggestion, I write this patch,
hopefully we can fix the warning completely.

This patch put sysfs s_active into two classes, one is for PM, the other
is for the rest, so lockdep will distinguish them.

I think this patch does not hit the root cause, we have a similiar
warning which is not related with PM.
Reported by Nick when he's trying to switch evalator. It is
reproducable with "echo deadline >/sys/block/sdx/queue/scheduler"
while kernel is using cfq.



Well, the four reports that I got are all pm-related,
this one is new for me.

I think adding another class for io_scheduler would fix this.

Thanks.

[ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
2.6.33-rc6 #1
---------------------------------------------
sh/889 is trying to acquire lock:
(s_active){++++.+}, at: [<7820a975>] sysfs_addrm_finish+0x27/0x4e

but task is already holding lock:
(s_active){++++.+}, at: [<7820ab82>] sysfs_get_active_two+0x18/0x3e

other info that might help us debug this:
4 locks held by sh/889:
#0: (&buffer->mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<7820984e>] sysfs_write_file+0x20/0x99
#1: (s_active){++++.+}, at: [<7820ab82>] sysfs_get_active_two+0x18/0x3e
#2: (s_active){++++.+}, at: [<7820ab91>] sysfs_get_active_two+0x27/0x3e
#3: (&q->sysfs_lock){+.+.+.}, at: [<78289e95>] queue_attr_store+0x2e/0x68

stack backtrace:
Pid: 889, comm: sh Not tainted 2.6.33-rc6 #1
Call Trace:
[<784a6966>] ? printk+0xf/0x11
[<781752a1>] print_deadlock_bug+0x99/0xa3
[<781753c6>] check_deadlock+0x11b/0x140
[<781763e5>] validate_chain+0x4ec/0x4f9
[<78176a68>] __lock_acquire+0x676/0x6cf
[<78176b64>] lock_acquire+0xa3/0xbc
[<7820a975>] ? sysfs_addrm_finish+0x27/0x4e
[<7820a37a>] sysfs_deactivate+0x6c/0xa4
[<7820a975>] ? sysfs_addrm_finish+0x27/0x4e
[<7820a975>] sysfs_addrm_finish+0x27/0x4e
[<7820aa3a>] sysfs_remove_dir+0x62/0x72
[<7829d6dd>] kobject_del+0x11/0x32
[<78283406>] __elv_unregister_queue+0x18/0x20
[<78283c66>] elevator_switch+0x6d/0x11b
[<78283d92>] elv_iosched_store+0x7e/0x9b
[<78289eb8>] queue_attr_store+0x51/0x68
[<78209894>] sysfs_write_file+0x66/0x99
[<781cd460>] vfs_write+0x8a/0x108
[<781cd578>] sys_write+0x3c/0x63
[<78125b90>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x36


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