Re: INFO: suspicious RCU usage. on 3.3.0-rc7-next-20120316

From: Justin P. Mattock
Date: Sun Mar 18 2012 - 13:43:08 EST


On 03/18/2012 08:54 AM, Tejun Heo wrote:
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 08:36:26AM -0700, Justin P. Mattock wrote:
with the current linux-next I am seeing this in dmesg..:

[ 3.643089] isapnp: No Plug& Play device found
[ 3.643690] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 32 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[ 3.673061]
[ 3.699307] ===============================
[ 3.725757] [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
[ 3.752134] 3.3.0-rc7-next-20120316 #1 Not tainted
[ 3.778508] -------------------------------
[ 3.778510] kernel/cgroup.c:1719 suspicious
rcu_dereference_check() usage!
[ 3.778512]
[ 3.778512] other info that might help us debug this:
[ 3.778513]
[ 3.778515]
[ 3.778515] rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 1
[ 3.778517] no locks held by swapper/0/1.
[ 3.778517]
[ 3.778518] stack backtrace:
[ 3.778519] Pid: 1, comm: swapper/0 Not tainted
3.3.0-rc7-next-20120316 #1
[ 3.778521] Call Trace:
[ 3.778528] [<c158cc21>] ? printk+0x1d/0x1f
[ 3.778534] [<c10a822a>] lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0xca/0x100
[ 3.778536] [<c10bedea>] cgroup_path+0x17a/0x1c0

Known problem. The following pending patchset should fix the problem.

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1263989

Jens?

Thakns.


cool thanks for the info..
I went and applied your patches(all 5) and there is fuzz, and some errors with linux-next.
seems the suspicious message is still there, but the system boots up just fine with the patches in.
maybe manually applying them by hand is what I need to do for -next so I dont miss anything important with the patch that takes care of the suspicious message.

Justin P. Mattock
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