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Re: [PATCH v2] iwlwifi: pcie: move rx workqueue initialization to iwl_trans_pcie_alloc()

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On Thu, 24 Aug 2017, Luca Coelho wrote:

> > Work queues cannot be allocated when a mutex is held because the mutex
> > may be in use and that would make it sleep.  Doing so generates the
> > following splat with 4.13+:
> > 
> > [   19.513298] ======================================================
> > [   19.513429] WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
> > [   19.513557] 4.13.0-rc5+ #6 Not tainted
> > [   19.513638] ------------------------------------------------------
> > [   19.513767] cpuhp/0/12 is trying to acquire lock:
> > [   19.513867]  (&tz->lock){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff924afebb>] thermal_zone_get_temp+0x5b/0xb0
> > [   19.514047]
> > [   19.514047] but task is already holding lock:
> > [   19.514166]  (cpuhp_state){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff91cc4baa>] cpuhp_thread_fun+0x3a/0x210
> > [   19.514338]
> > [   19.514338] which lock already depends on the new lock.
> > 
> > This lock dependency already existed with previous kernel versions,
> > but it was not detected until commit 49dfe2a67797 ("cpuhotplug: Link
> > lock stacks for hotplug callbacks") was introduced.
> > 
> > Reported-by: David Weinehall <david.weinehall@intel.com>
> > Reported-by: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
> 
> Jiri, did you have a chance to try this out? I'm about to ask Kalle to
> merge this so it gets in in time for 4.13-rc7.

Sorry, I am almost completely offline for one more week (vacation), and 
will not have access to the affected system before that. But this indeed 
looks like a correct fix to me, so feel free to add

	Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

I'll be able to provide my Tested-by: eventually only in ~10 days.

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs

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Re: [linuxwifi] x86/thermal: AB-BA dependency between mvm->mutex  and tz->lock Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> - 2017-08-17 15:40 +0200
  Re: [linuxwifi] x86/thermal: AB-BA dependency between mvm->mutex  and tz->lock "Coelho, Luciano" <luciano.coelho@intel.com> - 2017-08-17 16:10 +0200
  [PATCH] iwlwifi: pcie: move rx workqueue initialization to iwl_trans_pcie_alloc() Luca Coelho <luca@coelho.fi> - 2017-08-22 09:40 +0200
  [PATCH v2] iwlwifi: pcie: move rx workqueue initialization to iwl_trans_pcie_alloc() Luca Coelho <luca@coelho.fi> - 2017-08-22 09:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2] iwlwifi: pcie: move rx workqueue initialization to  iwl_trans_pcie_alloc() Luca Coelho <luca@coelho.fi> - 2017-08-24 08:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2] iwlwifi: pcie: move rx workqueue initialization to  iwl_trans_pcie_alloc() Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> - 2017-08-24 22:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v2] iwlwifi: pcie: move rx workqueue initialization to  iwl_trans_pcie_alloc() Luca Coelho <luca@coelho.fi> - 2017-08-24 22:10 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v2] iwlwifi: pcie: move rx workqueue initialization to iwl_trans_pcie_alloc() Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> - 2017-08-29 10:20 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v2] iwlwifi: pcie: move rx workqueue initialization to  iwl_trans_pcie_alloc() Luca Coelho <luca@coelho.fi> - 2017-09-04 13:50 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v2] iwlwifi: pcie: move rx workqueue initialization to  iwl_trans_pcie_alloc() Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> - 2017-09-04 13:50 +0200
    Re: [v2] iwlwifi: pcie: move rx workqueue initialization to  iwl_trans_pcie_alloc() Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> - 2017-08-24 16:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2] iwlwifi: pcie: move rx workqueue initialization to  iwl_trans_pcie_alloc() David Weinehall <david.weinehall@linux.intel.com> - 2017-08-30 17:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2] iwlwifi: pcie: move rx workqueue initialization to  iwl_trans_pcie_alloc() Luca Coelho <luca@coelho.fi> - 2017-08-31 08:20 +0200

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