Re: regression 4.4: deadlock in with cgroup percpu_rwsem

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Fri Jan 15 2016 - 11:40:30 EST


On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 08:30:43AM +0100, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> On 01/14/2016 08:56 PM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Thanks a lot for the report and detailed analysis. Can you please
> > test whether the following patch fixes the issue?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
>
>
> Yes, the deadlock is gone and the system is still running.
> After some time I had the following WARN in the logs, though.
> Not sure yet if that is related.

Hmmm... doesn't seem to be related. I'll spruce up the patch and
route it through cgroup tree w/ stable cc'd. Please keep me posted on
the lockdep issue.

Thanks!

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tejun