On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:56 PM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:09:33AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>
>> =============================================
>> [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
>> 2.6.26-rc2-mm1 #15
>> ---------------------------------------------
>> modprobe/942 is trying to acquire lock:
>> (&cls->mutex){--..}, at: [<ffffffff811b431e>] device_add+0x43d/0x57a
>>
>> but task is already holding lock:
>> (&cls->mutex){--..}, at: [<ffffffff811b6787>] class_interface_register+0x48/0xbd
>>
>> other info that might help us debug this:
>> 1 lock held by modprobe/942:
>> #0: (&cls->mutex){--..}, at: [<ffffffff811b6787>] class_interface_register+0x48/0xbd
>>
>> stack backtrace:
>> Pid: 942, comm: modprobe Not tainted 2.6.26-rc2-mm1 #15
>>
>> Call Trace:
>> [<ffffffff81056be1>] __lock_acquire+0x90d/0xc50
>> [<ffffffff8100c50f>] ? restore_args+0x0/0x30
>> [<ffffffff811b431e>] ? device_add+0x43d/0x57a
>> [<ffffffff81057276>] lock_acquire+0x91/0xb7
>> [<ffffffff811b431e>] ? device_add+0x43d/0x57a
>> [<ffffffff812b23ab>] mutex_lock_nested+0xf2/0x278
>> [<ffffffff811b431e>] ? device_add+0x43d/0x57a
>> [<ffffffff812b3acd>] ? _spin_unlock+0x23/0x28
>> [<ffffffff811b431e>] device_add+0x43d/0x57a
>> [<ffffffff811b4471>] device_register+0x16/0x1b
>> [<ffffffff811b4555>] device_create+0xdf/0x112
>> [<ffffffff81055fdc>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf
>> [<ffffffff81055fdc>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf
>> [<ffffffff812b1fe1>] ? mutex_unlock+0x9/0xb
>> [<ffffffff811b79b7>] ? kobj_map+0x113/0x124
>> [<ffffffff810ac0f5>] ? exact_lock+0x0/0x14
>> [<ffffffff810abd09>] ? exact_match+0x0/0x9
>> [<ffffffffa00ec448>] :sg:sg_add+0x2a3/0x3bd
>> [<ffffffff811b67b6>] class_interface_register+0x77/0xbd
>> [<ffffffffa005d869>] :scsi_mod:scsi_register_interface+0x11/0x13
>> [<ffffffffa00d50a3>] :sg:init_sg+0xa3/0x155
>> [<ffffffff8105ea8f>] sys_init_module+0x1823/0x197a
>> [<ffffffff810c45bc>] ? seq_release+0x0/0x56
>> [<ffffffff8100bebb>] system_call_after_swapgs+0x7b/0x80
>
> I'm guessing that this is due to David's "change the semaphore to a
> mutex" patch that you have in your tree, but I refused to take as I was
> worried about just this issue :)
>
> David, any thoughts?
Yes, put them into -mm is right.
As matthew said, the class_interface_register call add_dev, then
device_add cause the issue.
Regards
dave
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