Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753890AbaKHOhF (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Nov 2014 09:37:05 -0500 Received: from mail-wg0-f51.google.com ([74.125.82.51]:38049 "EHLO mail-wg0-f51.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753716AbaKHOhC (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Nov 2014 09:37:02 -0500 Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2014 14:36:54 +0000 From: Sitsofe Wheeler To: "K. Y. Srinivasan" Cc: Haiyang Zhang , devel@linuxdriverproject.org, Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Inconsistent lock state with Hyper-V memory balloon? Message-ID: <20141108143654.GA7939@sucs.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I've been trying to use the Hyper-V balloon driver to allow the host to reclaim unused memory but have been hitting issues. With a Hyper-V 2012 R2 guest with 4GBytes of RAM, dynamic memory on, 1GByte minimum 10GByte maximum, 8 vcpus, running a 3.18.0-rc3 kernel with no swap configured the following lockdep splat occurred: ================================= [ INFO: inconsistent lock state ] 3.18.0-rc3.x86_64 #159 Not tainted --------------------------------- inconsistent {SOFTIRQ-ON-W} -> {IN-SOFTIRQ-W} usage. swapper/0/0 [HC0[0]:SC1[1]:HE1:SE0] takes: (bdev_lock){+.?...}, at: [] nr_blockdev_pages+0x1c/0x80 {SOFTIRQ-ON-W} state was registered at: [] __lock_acquire+0x87d/0x1c60 [] lock_acquire+0xfc/0x150 [] _raw_spin_lock+0x39/0x50 [] nr_blockdev_pages+0x1c/0x80 [] si_meminfo+0x47/0x70 [] eventpoll_init+0x11/0x10a [] do_one_initcall+0xf9/0x1a7 [] kernel_init_freeable+0x1d4/0x268 [] kernel_init+0xe/0x100 [] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0 irq event stamp: 2660283708 hardirqs last enabled at (2660283708): [] free_hot_cold_page+0x175/0x190 hardirqs last disabled at (2660283707): [] free_hot_cold_page+0xa5/0x190 softirqs last enabled at (2660132034): [] _local_bh_enable+0x4a/0x50 softirqs last disabled at (2660132035): [] irq_exit+0x58/0xc0 might help us debug this: Possible unsafe locking scenario: CPU0 ---- lock(bdev_lock); lock(bdev_lock); * no locks held by swapper/0/0. CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.18.0-rc3.x86_64 #159 Hardware name: Microsoft Corporation Virtual Machine/Virtual Machine, BIOS 090006 05/23/2012 ffffffff8266ac90 ffff880107403af8 ffffffff816db3ef 0000000000000000 ffffffff81c134c0 ffff880107403b58 ffffffff816d6fd3 0000000000000001 ffffffff00000001 ffff880100000000 ffffffff81010e6f 0000000000000046 Call Trace: [] dump_stack+0x4e/0x68 [] print_usage_bug+0x1f3/0x204 [] ? save_stack_trace+0x2f/0x50 [] ? print_irq_inversion_bug+0x200/0x200 [] mark_lock+0x176/0x2e0 [] __lock_acquire+0x7c3/0x1c60 [] ? lookup_address+0x28/0x30 [] ? _lookup_address_cpa.isra.3+0x3b/0x40 [] ? __debug_check_no_obj_freed+0x89/0x220 [] lock_acquire+0xfc/0x150 [] ? nr_blockdev_pages+0x1c/0x80 [] _raw_spin_lock+0x39/0x50 [] ? nr_blockdev_pages+0x1c/0x80 [] nr_blockdev_pages+0x1c/0x80 [] si_meminfo+0x47/0x70 [] post_status.isra.3+0x6d/0x190 [] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10 [] ? __free_pages+0x2f/0x60 [] ? free_balloon_pages.isra.5+0x8f/0xb0 [] balloon_onchannelcallback+0x212/0x380 [] vmbus_on_event+0x173/0x1d0 [] tasklet_action+0x127/0x160 [] __do_softirq+0x18a/0x340 [] irq_exit+0x58/0xc0 [] hyperv_vector_handler+0x45/0x60 [] hyperv_callback_vector+0x72/0x80 [] ? native_safe_halt+0x6/0x10 [] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10 [] default_idle+0x51/0xf0 [] arch_cpu_idle+0xf/0x20 [] cpu_startup_entry+0x217/0x3f0 [] rest_init+0xc9/0xd0 [] ? rest_init+0x5/0xd0 [] start_kernel+0x438/0x445 [] ? set_init_arg+0x57/0x57 [] ? early_idt_handlers+0x120/0x120 [] x86_64_start_reservations+0x2a/0x2c [] x86_64_start_kernel+0x13e/0x14d Any help deciphering the above is greatly appreciated! -- Sitsofe | http://sucs.org/~sits/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/