Re: lockdep recursive locking detected (rcu_kthread / __cache_free)

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 09:50 -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Oct 2011, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
> > It could of course be I got confused and broke stuff instead, could
> > someone who knows slab (I guess that's either Pekka, Christoph or David)
> > stare at those patches?
> 
> Why is the loop in init_lock_keys only running over kmalloc caches and not
> over all slab caches?

A little digging brings us to: 056c62418cc639bf2fe962c6a6ee56054b838bc7
which seems to have introduced that.

>  It seems that this has to be especially applied to
> regular slab caches because those are the ones that mostly have off slab
> structures. So modify init_lock_keys to run over all slab caches?

That sounds about right, worth a try. Also over new caches, the above
reverenced commit removes a hook from kmem_cache_init() which we really
need I suppose.

I'll try and compose a patch if nobody beats me to it, but need to run
an errand first.
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