On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 15:52 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> As Peter Zijlstra told me, we have the following path:
> 
> do_exit()
>   exit_itimers()
>     itimer_delete()
>       spin_lock_irqsave(&timer->it_lock, &flags);
>       timer_delete_hook(timer);
>         kc->timer_del(timer) := posix_cpu_timer_del()
>           put_task_struct()
>             __put_task_struct()
>               task_numa_free()
>                 spin_lock(&grp->lock);
> 
> 
> Which means that task_numa_free() can be called with interrupts
> disabled, which means that we should not be using spin_lock_irq() but
> spin_lock_irqsave() instead. Otherwise we are enabling interrupts while
> holding an interrupt unsafe lock!
> 
> Link: 
> http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
> ---

Your patch was mangled it seems...

Fixes: 60e69eed85bb ("sched/numa: Fix task_numa_free() lockdep splat")



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