On Fri, 2014-04-25 at 09:40 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: > Hotplug can still deadlock in rt trees too, and will if you beat it > hard. Box actually deadlocks like so. CPU3 boot.kdump sys_wait4 do_wait read_lock(&tasklist_lock) rt_read_lock __rt_spin_lock(lock) migrate_disable() pin_current_cpu() if (hp->grab_lock) { preempt_enable(); <== hmm hotplug_lock(hp); hp = &__get_cpu_var(hotplug_pcp); <== hmm struct hotplug_pcp { unplug = 0xffff8800b7d0e540, sync_tsk = 0x0, refcount = 0, <== hmm grab_lock = 1, ... lock = { ... owner = 0xffff8802039f0001, stress-cpu-hotplug_stress.sh?!? <=== he's way over yonder. Yo, dude, would you please NOT take percpu locks with you? CPU0 stress-cpu-hotplug_stress.sh sysfs_write_file dev_attr_store online_store device_offline cpu_subsys_offline cpu_down _cpu_down cpu_hotplug_begin mutex_lock(&cpu_hotplug.lock); ... check_for_tasks write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock); held by CPU3 boot.kdump over there ===> CPU0 kworker/0:0 cpuset_hotplug_workfn+0x23e/0x380 rebuild_sched_domains+0x15/0x30 rebuild_sched_domains_locked+0x17/0x80 get_online_cpus+0x35/0x50 mutex_lock(&cpu_hotplug.lock); held by stress-cpu-hotplug_stress.sh twiddle twiddle twiddle... INFO: task kworker/0:0:4 blocked for more than 120 seconds. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html