Re: [patch] Reorganize the cpufreq cpu hotplug locking to not be totally bizare

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On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 23:35 +0100, Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:
> From: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
> > We should delete lock_cpu_hotplug() and start again.
> 
> Here is another example of possible lock_cpu_hotplug() problems.  Is
> it worth tracking down, or should I just ignore the messages until a
> proper solution is figured out?  The only problem is that it means S3
> suspend doesn't work.
> 
> The hardware is a Thinkpad T60, T2400 dual-core, compiled with SMP and
> PREEMPT, hotpluggable CPUs, and it has a SATA drive.  Kernel is
> 2.6.18-rc1.  Suspend (UP) worked with 2.6.15-25-386 from Ubuntu using
> the same sleep.sh script.  The messages below, including the large
> lockdep backtrace, occur after running sleep.sh (run by Fn-F4):
> 
> 
> [  546.652000] Stopping tasks: ====================================================================================
> [  566.848000]  stopping tasks timed out after 20 seconds (8 tasks remaining):
> [  566.848000]   rt-test-0
> [  566.848000]   rt-test-1
> [  566.848000]   rt-test-2
> [  566.848000]   rt-test-3
> [  566.848000]   rt-test-4
> [  566.848000]   rt-test-5
> [  566.848000]   rt-test-6
> [  566.848000]   rt-test-7
> 
this got fixed in -rc2

> The lockdep code also reported problems:
> 
> [  538.292000] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:02:00.0 disabled
> [  546.144000] Freezing cpus ...
> [  546.172000] 
> [  546.172000] =======================================================
> [  546.172000] [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
> [  546.172000] -------------------------------------------------------
> [  546.172000] sleep.sh/15184 is trying to acquire lock:
> [  546.172000]  (&policy->lock){--..}, at: [<c0310645>] mutex_lock+0x25/0x30
> [  546.172000] 
> [  546.172000] but task is already holding lock:
> [  546.172000]  ((cpu_chain).rwsem){----}, at: [<c0133267>] blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x17/0x40
> [  546.172000] 

and afaik my patches in current git should fix all this up
if not please send a trace ;)

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