[openib-general] ipoib lockdep warning

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at mellanox.co.il
Tue Jul 11 14:16:20 PDT 2006


Quoting r. Zach Brown <zach.brown at oracle.com>:
> BC:
> 
> query_idr.lock is taken with interrupts enabled and so is implicitly
> ordered before dev->_xmit_lock which is taken in interrupt context.
> 
> ipoib_mcast_join_task()
>   ipoib_mcast_join()
>     ib_sa_mcmember_rec_query()
>       send_mad()
>         idr_pre_get(&query_idr)
>           spin_lock(&idp->lock)

Got to check, but if that's true we have a simple deadlock here:
ib_sa_mcmember_rec_query might get called from interrupt
context as well, deadlocking on idp->lock?

Sean?

> I can imagine all sorts of potential fixes (block ints when calling idr?
>  reorder acquiry in ipoib_mcast_restart_task()?) but I'm operating on a
> partial view of the paths here so I wasn't comfortable suggesting a fix.
>  I wouldn't be surprised to hear that there are circumstances that both
> lockdep and I don't know about that stop this from being a problem :).

Awesome, thanks for the analysis! Your help is very much appreciated.

-- 
MST




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