Takashi, I've been seeing this on one machine since around 3.3 (perhaps earlier, I forget) I reported it a while ago, and you had me test some patch that didn't make any difference, then it fell off my radar..
Dave ============================================= [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ] 3.6.0+ #31 Not tainted --------------------------------------------- pulseaudio/1022 is trying to acquire lock: blocked: (&(&substream->self_group.lock)->rlock/1){......}, instance: ffff88009befc140, at: [<ffffffffa04ba173>] snd_pcm_action_group+0xa3/0x240 [snd_pcm] but task is already holding lock: held: (&(&substream->self_group.lock)->rlock/1){......}, instance: ffff88009bee2190, at: [<ffffffffa04ba173>] snd_pcm_action_group+0xa3/0x240 [snd_pcm] other info that might help us debug this: Possible unsafe locking scenario: CPU0 ---- lock(&(&substream->self_group.lock)->rlock/1); lock(&(&substream->self_group.lock)->rlock/1); *** DEADLOCK *** May be due to missing lock nesting notation 4 locks on stack by pulseaudio/1022: #0: held: (snd_pcm_link_rwlock){......}, instance: ffffffffa04c8138, at: [<ffffffffa04baee2>] snd_pcm_drop+0x62/0x110 [snd_pcm] #1: held: (&(&substream->self_group.lock)->rlock){......}, instance: ffff88009bee60f0, at: [<ffffffffa04baeea>] snd_pcm_drop+0x6a/0x110 [snd_pcm] #2: blocked: (&(&substream->group->lock)->rlock){......}, instance: ffff8800b4e0dde8, at: [<ffffffffa04ba4ae>] snd_pcm_action+0x3e/0xb0 [snd_pcm] #3: held: (&(&substream->self_group.lock)->rlock/1){......}, instance: ffff88009bee2190, at: [<ffffffffa04ba173>] snd_pcm_action_group+0xa3/0x240 [snd_pcm] stack backtrace: Pid: 1022, comm: pulseaudio Not tainted 3.6.0+ #31 Call Trace: [<ffffffff810d8395>] __lock_acquire+0x6f5/0x1b80 [<ffffffff810d7fa7>] ? __lock_acquire+0x307/0x1b80 [<ffffffff81021dd3>] ? native_sched_clock+0x13/0x80 [<ffffffff810d9ef1>] lock_acquire+0xa1/0x1f0 [<ffffffffa04ba173>] ? snd_pcm_action_group+0xa3/0x240 [snd_pcm] [<ffffffff816c9e24>] _raw_spin_lock_nested+0x44/0x80 [<ffffffffa04ba173>] ? snd_pcm_action_group+0xa3/0x240 [snd_pcm] [<ffffffffa04ba173>] snd_pcm_action_group+0xa3/0x240 [snd_pcm] [<ffffffffa04ba4e1>] snd_pcm_action+0x71/0xb0 [snd_pcm] [<ffffffffa04ba53a>] snd_pcm_stop+0x1a/0x20 [snd_pcm] [<ffffffffa04baf04>] snd_pcm_drop+0x84/0x110 [snd_pcm] [<ffffffffa04bccd8>] snd_pcm_common_ioctl1+0x4f8/0xc00 [snd_pcm] [<ffffffff810d4f4f>] ? lock_release_holdtime.part.26+0xf/0x180 [<ffffffffa04bd770>] snd_pcm_playback_ioctl1+0x60/0x2e0 [snd_pcm] [<ffffffffa04bda24>] snd_pcm_playback_ioctl+0x34/0x40 [snd_pcm] [<ffffffff811d9cf9>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x99/0x5a0 [<ffffffff812d9b07>] ? file_has_perm+0x97/0xb0 [<ffffffff811da291>] sys_ioctl+0x91/0xb0 [<ffffffff816d4290>] tracesys+0xdd/0xe2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/