While testing some zfcp patches with the current linux-2.6 git checkout i got this: ======================================================= [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] 2.6.31-08358-g94a8d5c-dirty #2 ------------------------------------------------------- multipathd/2409 is trying to acquire lock: (_event_lock){+.+.+.}, at: [<00000000002e5efc>] dm_table_event+0x50/0x80 but task is already holding lock: (_hash_lock){++++..}, at: [<00000000002e9d84>] dev_remove+0x2c/0xf0 which lock already depends on the new lock. the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is: -> #1 (_hash_lock){++++..}: [<0000000000086d92>] __lock_acquire+0xe2e/0x19cc [<00000000000879a0>] lock_acquire+0x70/0x98 [<00000000004eb486>] down_read+0x5e/0x9c [<00000000002e81ba>] dm_copy_name_and_uuid+0x3e/0xec [<00000000002e131a>] dm_send_uevents+0x9a/0x180 [<00000000002e1eee>] event_callback+0xae/0xf8 [<00000000002e5f12>] dm_table_event+0x66/0x80 [<000000000006b0a4>] worker_thread+0x24c/0x308 [<0000000000071302>] kthread+0x9a/0xa4 [<000000000001c5de>] kernel_thread_starter+0x6/0xc [<000000000001c5d8>] kernel_thread_starter+0x0/0xc -> #0 (_event_lock){+.+.+.}: [<00000000000877e2>] __lock_acquire+0x187e/0x19cc [<00000000000879a0>] lock_acquire+0x70/0x98 [<00000000004ea7a0>] mutex_lock_nested+0x78/0x3f0 [<00000000002e5efc>] dm_table_event+0x50/0x80 [<00000000002e9d1a>] __hash_remove+0xaa/0xe8 [<00000000002e9db6>] dev_remove+0x5e/0xf0 [<00000000002ea5e4>] ctl_ioctl+0x20c/0x288 [<00000000002ea68a>] dm_ctl_ioctl+0x2a/0x38 [<00000000000fc6cc>] vfs_ioctl+0x4c/0xdc [<00000000000fcbdc>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x3a8/0x5c8 [<00000000000fce4c>] SyS_ioctl+0x50/0x8c [<0000000000029cf6>] sysc_noemu+0x10/0x16 [<0000020000264286>] 0x20000264286 other info that might help us debug this: 1 lock held by multipathd/2409: #0: (_hash_lock){++++..}, at: [<00000000002e9d84>] dev_remove+0x2c/0xf0 stack backtrace: CPU: 0 Not tainted 2.6.31-08358-g94a8d5c-dirty #2 Process multipathd (pid: 2409, task: 000000002f6c6038, ksp: 000000002c8c7aa8) 0000000000000000 000000002c8c7998 0000000000000002 0000000000000000 000000002c8c7a38 000000002c8c79b0 000000002c8c79b0 00000000004e8582 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 000000000000000d 0000000000000000 000000002c8c7a00 000000000000000e 00000000004faf90 00000000000179e0 000000002c8c7998 000000002c8c79e0 Call Trace: ([<00000000000178e2>] show_trace+0xee/0x144) [<00000000000858ca>] print_circular_bug+0x112/0x124 [<00000000000877e2>] __lock_acquire+0x187e/0x19cc [<00000000000879a0>] lock_acquire+0x70/0x98 [<00000000004ea7a0>] mutex_lock_nested+0x78/0x3f0 [<00000000002e5efc>] dm_table_event+0x50/0x80 [<00000000002e9d1a>] __hash_remove+0xaa/0xe8 [<00000000002e9db6>] dev_remove+0x5e/0xf0 [<00000000002ea5e4>] ctl_ioctl+0x20c/0x288 [<00000000002ea68a>] dm_ctl_ioctl+0x2a/0x38 [<00000000000fc6cc>] vfs_ioctl+0x4c/0xdc [<00000000000fcbdc>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x3a8/0x5c8 [<00000000000fce4c>] SyS_ioctl+0x50/0x8c [<0000000000029cf6>] sysc_noemu+0x10/0x16 [<0000020000264286>] 0x20000264286 INFO: lockdep is turned off. -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel