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From: Paul E. McKenney on 7 Jun 2010 20:20
On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 02:14:25PM -0400, Miles Lane wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I just reproduced a warning I reported quite a while ago.� Is a patch
> for this in the pipeline?

I proposed a patch, thinking that it was a false positive. Peter Zijlstra
pointed out that there was a real race, and proposed an alternative patch,
which may be found at http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/4/22/603.

Could you please test Peter's patch and let us know if it cures the problem?

Thanx, Paul

> [��� 0.167267] [ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ]
> [��� 0.167396] ---------------------------------------------------
> [��� 0.167526] include/linux/cgroup.h:534 invoked
> rcu_dereference_check() without protection!
> [��� 0.167728]
> [��� 0.167729] other info that might help us debug this:
> [��� 0.167731]
> [��� 0.168092]
> [��� 0.168093] rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 1
> [��� 0.168337] no locks held by watchdog/0/5.
> [��� 0.168462]
> [��� 0.168463] stack backtrace:
> [��� 0.168704] Pid: 5, comm: watchdog/0 Not tainted 2.6.35-rc2-git1 #8
> [��� 0.168834] Call Trace:
> [��� 0.168965]� [<ffffffff81064e9c>] lockdep_rcu_dereference+0x9d/0xa5
> [��� 0.169100]� [<ffffffff8102c1ce>] task_subsys_state+0x59/0x70
> [��� 0.169232]� [<ffffffff8103189b>] __sched_setscheduler+0x19d/0x2f8
> [��� 0.169365]� [<ffffffff8102a5ef>] ? need_resched+0x1e/0x28
> [��� 0.169497]� [<ffffffff813c7d01>] ? schedule+0x586/0x619
> [��� 0.169628]� [<ffffffff81081c33>] ? watchdog+0x0/0x8c
> [��� 0.169758]� [<ffffffff81031a11>] sched_setscheduler+0xe/0x10
> [��� 0.169889]� [<ffffffff81081c5d>] watchdog+0x2a/0x8c
> [��� 0.170010]� [<ffffffff81081c33>] ? watchdog+0x0/0x8c
> [��� 0.170141]� [<ffffffff81054a82>] kthread+0x89/0x91
> [��� 0.170274]� [<ffffffff81003054>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
> [��� 0.170405]� [<ffffffff813ca480>] ? restore_args+0x0/0x30
> [��� 0.170536]� [<ffffffff810549f9>] ? kthread+0x0/0x91
> [��� 0.170667]� [<ffffffff81003050>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x0/0x10
> [ 0.176751] lockdep: fixing up alternatives.
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