On Wednesday, July 30, 2014 02:10:35 PM Gu Zheng wrote: > Hi Rafael, Hi, > A lockdep warning occurs when hot removing a cpu via sysfs: > echo 1 > /sys/bus/acpi/devices/LNXCPU\:02/eject > The kernel is latest upstream, and the test box is a kvm vm, > detail info as following. Well, I have a theory. Is the splat still reproducible with the patch below applied? Rafael --- kernel/smp.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) Index: linux-pm/kernel/smp.c =================================================================== --- linux-pm.orig/kernel/smp.c +++ linux-pm/kernel/smp.c @@ -542,6 +542,7 @@ void __init smp_init(void) idle_threads_init(); + lock_device_hotplug(); /* FIXME: This should be done in userspace --RR */ for_each_present_cpu(cpu) { if (num_online_cpus() >= setup_max_cpus) @@ -549,6 +550,7 @@ void __init smp_init(void) if (!cpu_online(cpu)) cpu_up(cpu); } + unlock_device_hotplug(); /* Any cleanup work */ smp_announce(); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html