Re: DEADLOCK: bisected to d215aab82d81974f438bfbc80aa437132f3c37c3 ("cpu/hotplug: Convert hotplug locking to percpu rwsem")

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Sun May 21 2017 - 12:09:43 EST


On Sun, 21 May 2017, Corentin Labbe wrote:
> Since linux-next-20170517 at least I got the following DEADLOCK warning:
> [ 4.311614] ============================================
> [ 4.316919] WARNING: possible recursive locking detected
> [ 4.322227] 4.12.0-rc1-next-20170517+ #273 Not tainted
> [ 4.327360] --------------------------------------------
> [ 4.332665] swapper/0/1 is trying to acquire lock:
> [ 4.337451] (cpu_hotplug_lock.rw_sem){++++++}, at: [<c01cc998>] stop_machine+0x1c/0x3c

The offending commit has been removed from -next. We are working on a replacement.

Thanks,

tglx