[REPORT] possible circular locking dependency when booting a VM on arm64 host

Salil Mehta salil.mehta at huawei.com
Thu Jul 9 07:59:57 EDT 2020


> From: yuzenghui
> Sent: Thursday, July 9, 2020 12:50 PM
> To: Salil Mehta <salil.mehta at huawei.com>
> Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>; Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>; Linux
> Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org>;
> linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org; Zhuangyuzeng (Yisen)
> <yisen.zhuang at huawei.com>; Wanghaibin (D) <wanghaibin.wang at huawei.com>
> Subject: Re: [REPORT] possible circular locking dependency when booting a VM
> on arm64 host
> 
> On 2020/7/9 18:54, Salil Mehta wrote:
> > Hi Yuzenghui,
> > I will try to reproduce it today at our platform. Just one question is it easily
> > reproducible or is a rare occurrence?
> 
> Salil, it's 100% reproducible once you start a guest. You don't even
> need to assign hostdev to the VM.

Thanks!


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