On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 11:01:38PM +0800, Boqun Feng wrote:
> 
> In test-ww_mutex, the stress will use 4096 locks to do the test, and
> given held_lock::references only have 12 bits, so I think this is the
> reason? I made a patch to reduce the lock number of stress test, and it
> seems the problem is resolved.
> 
> Thoughts?

Aaaahhh!! YES. I completely overlooked (and forgot) ww_mutex used that.

Let me also do a lockdep patch that complains on overflow there.

 ------------[ cut here ]------------
 WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5 at ../kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3269 
__lock_acquire.isra.7+0xf8/0x703
 DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(hlock->references == (1 << 12)-1)
 CPU: 0 PID: 5 Comm: kworker/u2:0 Not tainted 4.10.0-01418-gfba4873-dirty #29
 Workqueue: test-ww_mutex stress_inorder_work
 Call Trace:
  dump_stack+0x16/0x18
  __warn+0xa0/0xb7
  ? __lock_acquire.isra.7+0xf8/0x703
  warn_slowpath_fmt+0x28/0x2d
  __lock_acquire.isra.7+0xf8/0x703
  lock_acquire+0x6c/0x95
  ? stress_inorder_work+0xbf/0x218
  __ww_mutex_lock.constprop.0+0x5c/0x848
  ? stress_inorder_work+0xbf/0x218
  ? __might_sleep+0x6c/0x73
  ww_mutex_lock+0x34/0x3b
  ? stress_inorder_work+0xbf/0x218
  stress_inorder_work+0xbf/0x218
  process_one_work+0x1c0/0x33a
  ? process_one_work+0x168/0x33a
  worker_thread+0x22f/0x315
  kthread+0xed/0xf2
  ? process_scheduled_works+0x24/0x24
  ? __kthread_create_on_node+0x11f/0x11f
  ret_from_fork+0x21/0x30
 ---[ end trace 326b6bfcd7100ae8 ]---

---
 kernel/locking/lockdep.c | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
index 9812e5dd409e..c0ee8607c11e 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
@@ -3260,10 +3260,17 @@ static int __lock_acquire(struct lockdep_map *lock, 
unsigned int subclass,
        if (depth) {
                hlock = curr->held_locks + depth - 1;
                if (hlock->class_idx == class_idx && nest_lock) {
-                       if (hlock->references)
+                       if (hlock->references) {
+                               /*
+                                * Check: unsigned int references:12, overflow.
+                                */
+                               if (DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(hlock->references == (1 
<< 12)-1))
+                                       return 0;
+
                                hlock->references++;
-                       else
+                       } else {
                                hlock->references = 2;
+                       }
 
                        return 1;
                }

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