Description of problem: When I reboot my laptop (acer 5740, i3), cpuspeed causes a kernel backtrace to be printed. The message below was acquired by doing a /etc/init.d/cpuspeed stop and then copying the information from dmesg. ============================================= [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ] 2.6.33.1-19.fc13.x86_64 #1 --------------------------------------------- cpuspeed/2884 is trying to acquire lock: (s_active){++++.+}, at: [<ffffffff81177332>] sysfs_addrm_finish+0x36/0x55 but task is already holding lock: (s_active){++++.+}, at: [<ffffffff811774ee>] sysfs_get_active_two+0x24/0x48 other info that might help us debug this: 4 locks held by cpuspeed/2884: #0: (&buffer->mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff81175edb>] sysfs_write_file+0x3c/0x144 #1: (s_active){++++.+}, at: [<ffffffff811774ee>] sysfs_get_active_two+0x24/0x48 #2: (s_active){++++.+}, at: [<ffffffff811774fb>] sysfs_get_active_two+0x31/0x48 #3: (dbs_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffffa03cada2>] cpufreq_governor_dbs+0x2a0/0x352 [cpufreq_ondemand] stack backtrace: Pid: 2884, comm: cpuspeed Not tainted 2.6.33.1-19.fc13.x86_64 #1 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8107e96b>] __lock_acquire+0xcb5/0xd2c [<ffffffff8107cf64>] ? mark_held_locks+0x52/0x70 [<ffffffff8107d345>] ? debug_check_no_locks_freed+0x12e/0x145 [<ffffffff8107d1e4>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x111/0x135 [<ffffffff8107eabe>] lock_acquire+0xdc/0x102 [<ffffffff81177332>] ? sysfs_addrm_finish+0x36/0x55 [<ffffffff8107c31c>] ? lockdep_init_map+0x9e/0x113 [<ffffffff81176b02>] sysfs_deactivate+0x9a/0x103 [<ffffffff81177332>] ? sysfs_addrm_finish+0x36/0x55 [<ffffffff810711a7>] ? sched_clock_cpu+0x44/0xce [<ffffffff8147748c>] ? __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x120/0x132 [<ffffffff81177332>] sysfs_addrm_finish+0x36/0x55 [<ffffffff81175590>] sysfs_hash_and_remove+0x53/0x6a [<ffffffff81178729>] sysfs_remove_group+0x91/0xca [<ffffffffa03cadb6>] cpufreq_governor_dbs+0x2b4/0x352 [cpufreq_ondemand] [<ffffffff8107d215>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf [<ffffffff813a2e37>] __cpufreq_governor+0x9b/0xde [<ffffffff813a3c83>] __cpufreq_set_policy+0x1ce/0x275 [<ffffffff813a41a7>] store_scaling_governor+0x1a7/0x1fb [<ffffffff813a44b0>] ? handle_update+0x0/0x39 [<ffffffff81477da7>] ? down_write+0x7a/0x81 [<ffffffff813a3a90>] store+0x61/0x86 [<ffffffff81175fa7>] sysfs_write_file+0x108/0x144 [<ffffffff8111f0e5>] vfs_write+0xae/0x10b [<ffffffff8107d1e4>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x111/0x135 [<ffffffff8111f202>] sys_write+0x4a/0x6e [<ffffffff81009c72>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): [root@i3 ~]# uname -a Linux i3.sarin.net.in 2.6.33.1-19.fc13.x86_64 #1 SMP Sat Mar 20 02:14:15 UTC 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux [root@i3 ~]# rpm -q cpuspeed cpuspeed-1.5-13.fc13.x86_64 How reproducible: /etc/init.d cpuspeed stop Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot the machine 2. Stop cpuspeed OR 3. Reboot the machine Actual results: During every reboot, the system prints a backtrace from kernel. Expected results: When the system is rebooted, it should do so without any error messages/warnings from kernel Additional info: [root@i3 ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo <snip/> processor : 3 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 37 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU M 330 @ 2.13GHz stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 2133.000 cache size : 3072 KB <snip/>
thanks or the report! *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 572868 ***