Hi Nicholas, On 10/05/2012 12:14 AM, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: > On Thu, 2012-10-04 at 21:11 +0530, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: >> Hi Jiri, >> >> Thanks for taking a look! > > Hi Srivatsa & Jiri, > >> >>> This seems to be real. You should be seeing that since 3.5-rc1 already >>> though ... ? >>> >>> Does the patch below fix that? >>> >> >> Yes, it does, thanks! But 3.6-rc kernels were booting fine as far as I remember. >> I'll check again and get back tomorrow. >> > > Thanks for testing with v3.7-rc0 code ! > > Cc'ing the Qlogic folks here, as this irq lock inversion warning appears > to be regression from v3.7-rc1 qla2xxx (initiator) LLD changes that went > in recently via scsi.git. > Actually Jiri is right - I am seeing this with 3.5-rc1 kernel also. So its not a regression from this merge window.. it was there all along! Regards, Srivatsa S. Bhat > >>> >>> From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> >>> Subject: [PATCH] [SCSI] qla2xxx: fix potential deadlock on ha->hardware_lock >>> >>> Lockdep reports: >>> >>> === [ cut here ] === >>> ========================================================= >>> [ INFO: possible irq lock inversion dependency detected ] >>> 3.6.0-0.0.0.28.36b5ec9-default #1 Not tainted >>> --------------------------------------------------------- >>> qla2xxx_1_dpc/368 just changed the state of lock: >>> (&(&ha->vport_slock)->rlock){+.....}, at: [<ffffffffa009b377>] qla2x00_configure_hba+0x197/0x3c0 [qla2xxx] >>> but this lock was taken by another, HARDIRQ-safe lock in the past: >>> (&(&ha->hardware_lock)->rlock){-.....} >>> >>> and interrupts could create inverse lock ordering between them. >>> >>> other info that might help us debug this: >>> Possible interrupt unsafe locking scenario: >>> >>> CPU0 CPU1 >>> ---- ---- >>> lock(&(&ha->vport_slock)->rlock); >>> local_irq_disable(); >>> lock(&(&ha->hardware_lock)->rlock); >>> lock(&(&ha->vport_slock)->rlock); >>> <Interrupt> >>> lock(&(&ha->hardware_lock)->rlock); >>> === [ cut here ] === >>> >>> Fix the potential deadlock by disabling IRQs while holding ha->vport_slock. >>> >>> Reported-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> >> >> Tested-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> >> Regards, >> Srivatsa S. Bhat >> >>> --- >>> drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_init.c | 5 +++-- >>> 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) >>> >>> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_init.c b/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_init.c >>> index 799a58b..48fca47 100644 >>> --- a/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_init.c >>> +++ b/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_init.c >>> @@ -2080,6 +2080,7 @@ qla2x00_configure_hba(scsi_qla_host_t *vha) >>> uint8_t domain; >>> char connect_type[22]; >>> struct qla_hw_data *ha = vha->hw; >>> + unsigned long flags; >>> >>> /* Get host addresses. */ >>> rval = qla2x00_get_adapter_id(vha, >>> @@ -2154,9 +2155,9 @@ qla2x00_configure_hba(scsi_qla_host_t *vha) >>> vha->d_id.b.area = area; >>> vha->d_id.b.al_pa = al_pa; >>> >>> - spin_lock(&ha->vport_slock); >>> + spin_lock_irqsave(&ha->vport_slock, flags); >>> qlt_update_vp_map(vha, SET_AL_PA); >>> - spin_unlock(&ha->vport_slock); >>> + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ha->vport_slock, flags); >>> >>> if (!vha->flags.init_done) >>> ql_log(ql_log_info, vha, 0x2010, >>> >> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html