Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.6.24-rc5-mm1 -- INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected -- pm-suspend/5800 is trying to acquire lock | From | Johannes Berg <> | Date | Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:57:06 +0100 |
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> Sorry. GMail doesn't support sending unwrapped text, as far as I can > tell. I will send the log segment to you as an attachment. Also, > when I sent my .config inline to Andrew recently, it tripped his spam > filter. I'll attach it as well.
Thanks. This is a bug in iwlwifi.
The problem is actually another case where my workqueue debugging with lockdep is triggering a warning :))
Here's the thing:
iwl3945_cancel_deferred_work does
cancel_delayed_work_sync(&priv->init_alive_start);
(which is the "(&(&priv->init_alive_start)->work)" lock)
but it is called from within a locked section of mutex_lock(&priv->mutex); (locked from iwl3945_pci_suspend)
On the other hand, the task that runs from the init_alive_start workqueue is iwl3945_bg_init_alive_start() which will lock the same mutex.
So the deadlock condition is that you can be in cancel_delayed_work_sync() above while the mutex is locked, and be waiting for iwl_3945_bg_init_alive_start() which tries to lock the mutex.
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