On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 06:43:39AM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote: > On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 03:58:55PM +0300, Or Gerlitz wrote: > > So the patch eliminated the lockdep warning for mlx4 nested probing > > sequence, but introduced lockdep warning for > > 00:13.0 PIC: Intel Corporation 7500/5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub I/OxAPIC > > Interrupt Controller (rev 22) > > Oops, the patch in itself doesn't really change anything. The caller > should use a different subclass for the nested invocation, just like > spin_lock_nested() and friends. Sorry about not being clear. > Michael, can you please help? > > Thanks. > > -- > tejun So like this on top. Tejun, you didn't add your S.O.B and patch description, if this helps as we expect they will be needed. ----> pci: use work_on_cpu_nested for nested SRIOV Snce 3.9-rc1 mlx driver started triggering a lockdep warning. The issue is that a driver, in it's probe function, calls pci_sriov_enable so a PF device probe causes VF probe (AKA nested probe). Each probe in pci_device_probe which is (normally) run through work_on_cpu (this is to get the right numa node for memory allocated by the driver). In turn work_on_cpu does this internally: schedule_work_on(cpu, &wfc.work); flush_work(&wfc.work); So if you are running probe on CPU1, and cause another probe on the same CPU, this will try to flush workqueue from inside same workqueue which triggers a lockdep warning. Nested probing might be tricky to get right generally. But for pci_sriov_enable, the situation is actually very simple: VFs almost never use the same driver as the PF so the warning is bogus there. This is hardly elegant as it might shut up some real warnings if a buggy driver actually probes itself in a nested way, but looks to me like an appropriate quick fix for 3.9. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> --- diff --git a/drivers/pci/pci-driver.c b/drivers/pci/pci-driver.c index 1fa1e48..9c836ef 100644 --- a/drivers/pci/pci-driver.c +++ b/drivers/pci/pci-driver.c @@ -286,9 +286,9 @@ static int pci_call_probe(struct pci_driver *drv, struct pci_dev *dev, int cpu; get_online_cpus(); - cpu = cpumask_any_and(cpumask_of_node(node), cpu_online_mask); - if (cpu < nr_cpu_ids) - error = work_on_cpu(cpu, local_pci_probe, &ddi); + cpu = cpumask_first_and(cpumask_of_node(node), cpu_online_mask); + if (cpu != raw_smp_processor_id() && cpu < nr_cpu_ids) + error = work_on_cpu_nested(cpu, local_pci_probe, &ddi); else error = local_pci_probe(&ddi); put_online_cpus(); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html