On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 04:13:37PM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote: > On Mon, Mar 13, 2023, Yan Zhao wrote: > > The lock ordering after this patch are: > > - &p->pi_lock --> &rq->__lock --> > > &per_cpu(wakeup_vcpus_on_cpu_lock_out, cpu) > > - &per_cpu(wakeup_vcpus_on_cpu_lock_in, cpu) --> > > &per_cpu(wakeup_vcpus_on_cpu_lock_out, cpu) > > - &per_cpu(wakeup_vcpus_on_cpu_lock_in, cpu) --> &p->pi_lock > > > > Currently, &rq->__lock is not held in "path sched_in". > > However, if in future "path sched_in" takes &p->pi_lock or &rq->__lock, > > lockdep is able to detect and warn in that case. > > > > Signed-off-by: Yan Zhao <yan.y.zhao@xxxxxxxxx> > > [sean: path sched_out and path irq does not race, path sched_in does not > > take &rq->__lock] > > But there's no actual deadlock, right? I have zero interest in fixing a lockdep > false positive by making functional changes to KVM. I am definitely open to making > changes to somehow let lockdep know what's going on, but complicating KVM's actual > functionality is too much. Yes, there's no actual deadlock currently. But without fixing this issue, debug_locks will be set to false along with below messages printed. Then lockdep will be turned off and any other lock detections like lockdep_assert_held()... will not print warning even when it's obviously violated. [ 118.873499] ====================================================== [ 118.880413] WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected [ 118.887325] 6.2.0-rc5+ #600 Not tainted [ 118.891613] ------------------------------------------------------ [ 118.898519] swapper/5/0 is trying to acquire lock: [ 118.903869] ffff88810f5cac90 (&p->pi_lock){-.-.}-{2:2}, at: try_to_wake_up+0xbb/0x510 [ 118.912624] [ 118.912624] but task is already holding lock: [ 118.919138] ffff88885f7fdab8 (&per_cpu(wakeup_vcpus_on_cpu_lock, cpu)){-...}-{2:2}, at: pi_wakeup_handler+0x36/0x80 [kvm_intel] [ 118.931962] [ 118.931962] which lock already depends on the new lock. Any suggestion?