From a0b0f58cdd32ab363a600a294ddaa90f0c32de8c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: KOSAKI Motohiro Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 14:31:20 -0800 Subject: ksm: annotate ksm_thread_mutex is no deadlock source commit 62b61f611e ("ksm: memory hotremove migration only") caused the following new lockdep warning. ======================================================= [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] ------------------------------------------------------- bash/1621 is trying to acquire lock: ((memory_chain).rwsem){.+.+.+}, at: [] __blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x69/0xc0 but task is already holding lock: (ksm_thread_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [] ksm_memory_callback+0x3a/0xc0 which lock already depends on the new lock. the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is: -> #1 (ksm_thread_mutex){+.+.+.}: [] lock_acquire+0xaa/0x140 [] __mutex_lock_common+0x44/0x3f0 [] mutex_lock_nested+0x48/0x60 [] ksm_memory_callback+0x3a/0xc0 [] notifier_call_chain+0x8c/0xe0 [] __blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x7e/0xc0 [] blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x16/0x20 [] memory_notify+0x1b/0x20 [] remove_memory+0x1cc/0x5f0 [] memory_block_change_state+0xfd/0x1a0 [] store_mem_state+0xe2/0xf0 [] sysdev_store+0x20/0x30 [] sysfs_write_file+0xe6/0x170 [] vfs_write+0xc8/0x190 [] sys_write+0x54/0x90 [] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b -> #0 ((memory_chain).rwsem){.+.+.+}: [] __lock_acquire+0x155a/0x1600 [] lock_acquire+0xaa/0x140 [] down_read+0x51/0xa0 [] __blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x69/0xc0 [] blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x16/0x20 [] memory_notify+0x1b/0x20 [] remove_memory+0x56e/0x5f0 [] memory_block_change_state+0xfd/0x1a0 [] store_mem_state+0xe2/0xf0 [] sysdev_store+0x20/0x30 [] sysfs_write_file+0xe6/0x170 [] vfs_write+0xc8/0x190 [] sys_write+0x54/0x90 [] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b But it's a false positive. Both memory_chain.rwsem and ksm_thread_mutex have an outer lock (mem_hotplug_mutex). So they cannot deadlock. Thus, This patch annotate ksm_thread_mutex is not deadlock source. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: update comment, from Hugh] Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Acked-by: Hugh Dickins Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/ksm.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'mm/ksm.c') diff --git a/mm/ksm.c b/mm/ksm.c index 65ab5c7067d9..43bc893470b4 100644 --- a/mm/ksm.c +++ b/mm/ksm.c @@ -1724,8 +1724,13 @@ static int ksm_memory_callback(struct notifier_block *self, /* * Keep it very simple for now: just lock out ksmd and * MADV_UNMERGEABLE while any memory is going offline. + * mutex_lock_nested() is necessary because lockdep was alarmed + * that here we take ksm_thread_mutex inside notifier chain + * mutex, and later take notifier chain mutex inside + * ksm_thread_mutex to unlock it. But that's safe because both + * are inside mem_hotplug_mutex. */ - mutex_lock(&ksm_thread_mutex); + mutex_lock_nested(&ksm_thread_mutex, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING); break; case MEM_OFFLINE: -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b