Re: Spurious lockdep splat in v4.15-rc9

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 09:10:18AM -0800, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello, Peter, Ingo.
> 
> I get the below lockdep warning if I try to write a config into cgroup
> cpu.max file.  It's warning about A-A deadlock, but it's obviously
> spurious - the system doesn't lock up and the warning is about two
> get_online_cpus() calls nesting.

Looks real, just not instantly fatal. It would generate an actual
deadlock the moment there is a contending hotplug operation around
though.

I'll have a wee look.