Re: Lockdep warning when using REGCACHE_RBTREE

[Mark Brown]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 02:30:50PM -0800, Stefan Agner wrote:

> I currently work on the DCU DRM driver (drivers/gpu/drm/fsl-dcu/) on a
> Linux 4.4 kernel. With CONFIG_LOCKDEP enabled I get the following
> warning on startup:

Please don't paste entire stack dumps into e-mail, they're completely
unedifying and obscure the actual content in your e-mail.  Edit down
relevant pieces of information.

> [    1.327284] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [    1.332010] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2755
> lockdep_trace_alloc+0x120/0x124()
> [    1.341358] DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(irqs_disabled_flags(flags))

> I do use REGCACHE_RBTREE along with regmap_write from within the probe
> code path of the driver. This ultimately leads to an allocation.
> However, what I don't understand is why the allocation is leading to
> that error. The actual allocation happens in regcache_rbtree_node_alloc
> and seems to be a rather common kzalloc with GFP_KERNEL...

> The comment in __lockdep_trace_alloc says:
> "Oi! Can't be having __GFP_FS allocations with IRQs disabled.".

That appears to match with the warning printed.  Either this is a false
positive from lockdep or you are actually trying to cache a new register
in atomic context which is not and has never been supported, are any of
the functions in the backtrace taking relevant locks?

> Not sure if this is a Linux 4.4 issue, Fabio Estevam reported a similar
> issue just recently, not sure if that is related:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/1/11/284

Nothing has changed here in lockdep, doing allocations in atomic context
has never been supported.

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