On Wed, 15 Jul 2015, Paul E. McKenney wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 04:48:24PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> > On Tue, 14 Jul 2015, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > 
> > > commit a1992f2f3b8e174d740a8f764d0d51344bed2eed
> > > Author: Paul E. McKenney <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > > Date:   Tue Jul 14 16:24:14 2015 -0700
> > > 
> > >     rcu: Don't disable CPU hotplug during OOM notifiers
> > >     
> > >     RCU's rcu_oom_notify() disables CPU hotplug in order to stabilize the
> > >     list of online CPUs, which it traverses.  However, this is completely
> > >     pointless because smp_call_function_single() will quietly fail if 
> > > invoked
> > >     on an offline CPU.  Because the count of requests is incremented in 
> > > the
> > >     rcu_oom_notify_cpu() function that is remotely invoked, everything 
> > > works
> > >     nicely even in the face of concurrent CPU-hotplug operations.
> > >     
> > >     Furthermore, in recent kernels, invoking get_online_cpus() from an OOM
> > >     notifier can result in deadlock.  This commit therefore removes the
> > >     call to get_online_cpus() and put_online_cpus() from rcu_oom_notify().
> > >     
> > >     Reported-by: Marcin Ślusarz <marcin.slus...@gmail.com>
> > >     Reported-by: David Rientjes <rient...@google.com>
> > >     Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > 
> > Acked-by: David Rientjes <rient...@google.com>
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Any news on whether or not it solves the problem?
> 

Marcin, is your lockdep violation reproducible?  If so, does this patch 
fix it?

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