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A circular locking problem is reported by lockdep due to the following
circular locking dependency.
+--> cpu_hotplug_lock --> slab_mutex --> kn->active --+
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+-----------------------------------------------------+
The forward cpu_hotplug_lock ==> slab_mutex ==> kn->active dependency
happens in
kmem_cache_destroy(): cpus_read_lock(); mutex_lock(&slab_mutex);
==> sysfs_slab_unlink()
==> kobject_del()
==> kernfs_remove()
==> __kernfs_remove()
==> kernfs_drain(): rwsem_acquire(&kn->dep_map, ...);
The backward kn->active ==> cpu_hotplug_lock dependency happens in
kernfs_fop_write_iter(): kernfs_get_active();
==> slab_attr_store()
==> cpu_partial_store()
==> flush_all(): cpus_read_lock()
One way to break this circular locking chain is to avoid holding
cpu_hotplug_lock and slab_mutex while deleting the kobject in
sysfs_slab_unlink() which should be equivalent to doing a write_lock
and write_unlock pair of the kn->active virtual lock.
Since the kobject structures are not protected by slab_mutex or the
cpu_hotplug_lock, we can certainly release those locks before doing
the delete operation.
Move sysfs_slab_unlink() and sysfs_slab_release() to the newly
created kmem_cache_release() and call it outside the slab_mutex &
cpu_hotplug_lock critical sections. There will be a slight delay
in the deletion of sysfs files if kmem_cache_release() is called
indirectly from a work function.
Fixes:
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| arch | ||
| block | ||
| certs | ||
| crypto | ||
| drivers | ||
| fs | ||
| include | ||
| init | ||
| io_uring | ||
| ipc | ||
| kernel | ||
| lib | ||
| mm | ||
| net | ||
| samples | ||
| scripts | ||
| security | ||
| sound | ||
| tools | ||
| usr | ||
| virt | ||
| .clang-format | ||
| .cocciconfig | ||
| .get_maintainer.ignore | ||
| .gitattributes | ||
| .gitignore | ||
| .mailmap | ||
| COPYING | ||
| CREDITS | ||
| Kbuild | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| MAINTAINERS | ||
| Makefile | ||
| README | ||
README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.