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From: Luca Coelho <luca@coelho.fi>
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On Tue, 2017-08-22 at 10:37 +0300, Luca Coelho wrote:
> From: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
> 
> 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.

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Cheers,
Luca.