Re: 2.6.24-rc5-mm1 -- INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected -- pm-suspend/5800 is trying to acquire lock

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

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Thanks. This is a bug in iwlwifi.

The problem is actually another case where my workqueue debugging with
lockdep is triggering a warning :))

Here's the thing:

iwl3945_cancel_deferred_work does 

cancel_delayed_work_sync(&priv->init_alive_start);

(which is the "(&(&priv->init_alive_start)->work)" lock)

but it is called from within a locked section of
mutex_lock(&priv->mutex); (locked from iwl3945_pci_suspend)

On the other hand, the task that runs from the init_alive_start
workqueue is iwl3945_bg_init_alive_start() which will lock the same
mutex.

So the deadlock condition is that you can be in
cancel_delayed_work_sync() above while the mutex is locked, and be
waiting for iwl_3945_bg_init_alive_start() which tries to lock the
mutex.

johannes

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