Re: suspend-related lockdep warning

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Saturday, 1 of December 2007, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > 2.6.24-rc3-mm2 (which will be released if it boots on two more machines and
> > if I stay awake) will say this during suspend-to-RAM on the Vaio:
> > 
> > [   91.876445] Syncing filesystems ... done.
> > [   92.382595] Freezing user space processes ... WARNING: at kernel/lockdep.c:2662 check_flags()
> > [   92.384000] Pid: 1925, comm: dbus-daemon Not tainted 2.6.24-rc3-mm2 #32
> > [   92.384177]  [<c0104a74>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x12/0x25
> > [   92.384335]  [<c01052ff>] show_trace+0xd/0x10
> > [   92.384469]  [<c01059be>] dump_stack+0x55/0x5d
> > [   92.384605]  [<c0136a29>] check_flags+0x7f/0x11a
> > [   92.384746]  [<c0139cfb>] lock_acquire+0x3a/0x86
> > [   92.384886]  [<c031f4de>] _spin_lock+0x26/0x53
> > [   92.385023]  [<c0141d3b>] refrigerator+0x13/0xc8
> > [   92.385163]  [<c01274c8>] get_signal_to_deliver+0x32/0x3fb
> > [   92.385326]  [<c01030f4>] do_notify_resume+0x8c/0x699
> > [   92.385476]  [<c0103c18>] work_notifysig+0x13/0x1b
> > [   92.385620]  =======================
> > [   92.385719] irq event stamp: 309
> > [   92.385809] hardirqs last  enabled at (309): [<c0103c79>] syscall_exit_work+0x11/0x26
> > [   92.386045] hardirqs last disabled at (308): [<c0103b42>] syscall_exit+0x14/0x25
> > [   92.386265] softirqs last  enabled at (0): [<c011bea5>] copy_process+0x374/0x130e
> > [   92.386491] softirqs last disabled at (0): [<00000000>] 0x0
> > [   92.392457] (elapsed 0.00 seconds) done.
> > [   92.392581] Freezing remaining freezable tasks ... (elapsed 0.00 seconds) done.
> > [   92.392882] PM: Entering mem sleep
> > [   92.392974] Suspending console(s)
> > 
> > this has been happening for quite some time and might even be happening in
> > mainline.  
> 
> Is it complaining that we entered refrigerator with irqs disabled?

Or that someone else called task_lock() with irqs disabled at one point ...

Hm, perhaps it's related to kernel preemption.  Andrew, I guess the kernel is
preemptible?

Greetings,
Rafael
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