Revision 6946bd636364effce06ea46fe8f8cd6e2edb004e authored by Peter Zijlstra on 27 August 2006, 08:23:31 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 27 August 2006, 18:01:29 UTC
On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 07:57 +0200, Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
> =============================================
> [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
> ---------------------------------------------
> parted/7929 is trying to acquire lock:
>  (&bdev->bd_mutex){--..}, at: [<c105eb8d>] __blkdev_put+0x1e/0x13c
>
> but task is already holding lock:
>  (&bdev->bd_mutex){--..}, at: [<c105eec6>] do_open+0x72/0x3a8
>
> other info that might help us debug this:
> 1 lock held by parted/7929:
>  #0:  (&bdev->bd_mutex){--..}, at: [<c105eec6>] do_open+0x72/0x3a8
> stack backtrace:
>  [<c1003aad>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x58/0x15b
>  [<c100495f>] show_trace+0xd/0x10
>  [<c1004979>] dump_stack+0x17/0x1a
>  [<c102dee5>] __lock_acquire+0x753/0x99c
>  [<c102e3b0>] lock_acquire+0x4a/0x6a
>  [<c1204501>] mutex_lock_nested+0xc8/0x20c
>  [<c105eb8d>] __blkdev_put+0x1e/0x13c
>  [<c105ecc4>] blkdev_put+0xa/0xc
>  [<c105f18a>] do_open+0x336/0x3a8
>  [<c105f21b>] blkdev_open+0x1f/0x4c
>  [<c1057b40>] __dentry_open+0xc7/0x1aa
>  [<c1057c91>] nameidata_to_filp+0x1c/0x2e
>  [<c1057cd1>] do_filp_open+0x2e/0x35
>  [<c1057dd7>] do_sys_open+0x38/0x68
>  [<c1057e33>] sys_open+0x16/0x18
>  [<c1002845>] sysenter_past_esp+0x56/0x8d

OK, I'm having a look here; its all new to me so bear with me.

blkdev_open() calls
  do_open(bdev, ...,BD_MUTEX_NORMAL) and takes
    mutex_lock_nested(&bdev->bd_mutex, BD_MUTEX_NORMAL)

then something fails, and we're thrown to:

out_first: where
    if (bdev != bdev->bd_contains)
      blkdev_put(bdev->bd_contains) which is
        __blkdev_put(bdev->bd_contains, BD_MUTEX_NORMAL) which does
          mutex_lock_nested(&bdev->bd_contains->bd_mutex, BD_MUTEX_NORMAL) <--- lockdep trigger

When going to out_first, dbev->bd_contains is either bdev or whole, and
since we take the branch it must be whole. So it seems to me the
following patch would be the right one:

[akpm@osdl.org: compile fix]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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initramfs_data.S
/*
  initramfs_data includes the compressed binary that is the
  filesystem used for early user space.
  Note: Older versions of "as" (prior to binutils 2.11.90.0.23
  released on 2001-07-14) dit not support .incbin.
  If you are forced to use older binutils than that then the
  following trick can be applied to create the resulting binary:


  ld -m elf_i386  --format binary --oformat elf32-i386 -r \
  -T initramfs_data.scr initramfs_data.cpio.gz -o initramfs_data.o
   ld -m elf_i386  -r -o built-in.o initramfs_data.o

  initramfs_data.scr looks like this:
SECTIONS
{
       .init.ramfs : { *(.data) }
}

  The above example is for i386 - the parameters vary from architectures.
  Eventually look up LDFLAGS_BLOB in an older version of the
  arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile to see the flags used before .incbin was introduced.

  Using .incbin has the advantage over ld that the correct flags are set
  in the ELF header, as required by certain architectures.
*/

.section .init.ramfs,"a"
.incbin "usr/initramfs_data.cpio.gz"

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