On Fri, 2018-01-12 at 10:06 -0500, Mike Snitzer wrote: > I'm submitting this v5 with more feeling now ;) Hello Mike, Have these patches been tested with lockdep enabled? The following appeared in the kernel log when after I started testing Jens' for-next tree of this morning: ====================================================== WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected 4.15.0-rc7-dbg+ #1 Not tainted ------------------------------------------------------ 02-mq/1211 is trying to acquire lock: (&q->sysfs_lock){+.+.}, at: [<000000008b65bdad>] queue_attr_store+0x35/0x80 but task is already holding lock: (kn->count#213){++++}, at: [<000000007a18ad18>] kernfs_fop_write+0xe5/0x190 which lock already depends on the new lock. the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is: -> #1 (kn->count#213){++++}: kernfs_remove+0x1a/0x30 kobject_del.part.3+0xe/0x40 blk_unregister_queue+0xa7/0xe0 del_gendisk+0x12f/0x260 sd_remove+0x58/0xc0 [sd_mod] device_release_driver_internal+0x15a/0x220 bus_remove_device+0xf4/0x170 device_del+0x12f/0x330 __scsi_remove_device+0xef/0x120 [scsi_mod] scsi_forget_host+0x1b/0x60 [scsi_mod] scsi_remove_host+0x6f/0x110 [scsi_mod] 0xffffffffc09ed6e4 process_one_work+0x21c/0x6d0 worker_thread+0x35/0x380 kthread+0x117/0x130 ret_from_fork+0x24/0x30 -> #0 (&q->sysfs_lock){+.+.}: __mutex_lock+0x6c/0x9e0 queue_attr_store+0x35/0x80 kernfs_fop_write+0x109/0x190 __vfs_write+0x1e/0x130 vfs_write+0xb9/0x1b0 SyS_write+0x40/0xa0 entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x23/0x9a other info that might help us debug this: Possible unsafe locking scenario: CPU0 CPU1 ---- ---- lock(kn->count#213); lock(&q->sysfs_lock); lock(kn->count#213); lock(&q->sysfs_lock); *** DEADLOCK *** 3 locks held by 02-mq/1211: #0: (sb_writers#6){.+.+}, at: [<00000000afdb61d3>] vfs_write+0x17f/0x1b0 #1: (&of->mutex){+.+.}, at: [<00000000b291cabb>] kernfs_fop_write+0xdd/0x190 #2: (kn->count#213){++++}, at: [<000000007a18ad18>] kernfs_fop_write+0xe5/0x190 stack backtrace: CPU: 2 PID: 1211 Comm: 02-mq Not tainted 4.15.0-rc7-dbg+ #1 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.0.0-prebuilt.qemu-project.org 04/01/2014 Call Trace: dump_stack+0x85/0xbf print_circular_bug.isra.35+0x1d7/0x1e4 __lock_acquire+0x12af/0x1370 ? lock_acquire+0xa8/0x230 lock_acquire+0xa8/0x230 ? queue_attr_store+0x35/0x80 ? queue_attr_store+0x35/0x80 __mutex_lock+0x6c/0x9e0 ? queue_attr_store+0x35/0x80 ? kernfs_fop_write+0xdd/0x190 ? __mutex_lock+0x6c/0x9e0 ? __mutex_lock+0x3d0/0x9e0 ? lock_acquire+0xa8/0x230 ? __lock_is_held+0x55/0x90 ? queue_attr_store+0x35/0x80 queue_attr_store+0x35/0x80 kernfs_fop_write+0x109/0x190 __vfs_write+0x1e/0x130 ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x66/0x70 ? rcu_sync_lockdep_assert+0x23/0x50 ? __sb_start_write+0x152/0x1f0 ? __sb_start_write+0x168/0x1f0 vfs_write+0xb9/0x1b0 SyS_write+0x40/0xa0 entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x23/0x9a RIP: 0033:0x7fab8be8d054 RSP: 002b:00007ffd39f0def8 EFLAGS: 00000246 Thanks, Bart. -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel