[tip:core/urgent] rcu: Use wrapper function instead of exporting tasklist_lock

[tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney]

Commit-ID:  db1466b3e1bd1727375cdbfcbea4bcce2f860f61
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/db1466b3e1bd1727375cdbfcbea4bcce2f860f61
Author:     Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 07:46:56 -0800
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 11:46:14 +0100

rcu: Use wrapper function instead of exporting tasklist_lock

Lockdep-RCU commit d11c563d exported tasklist_lock, which is not
a good thing.  This patch instead exports a function that uses
lockdep to check whether tasklist_lock is held.

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
---
 include/linux/cred.h  |    2 +-
 include/linux/sched.h |    4 ++++
 kernel/exit.c         |    2 +-
 kernel/fork.c         |    9 ++++++++-
 kernel/pid.c          |    4 +++-
 5 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/cred.h b/include/linux/cred.h
index 4db09f8..52507c3 100644
--- a/include/linux/cred.h
+++ b/include/linux/cred.h
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ static inline void put_cred(const struct cred *_cred)
  * task or by holding tasklist_lock to prevent it from being unlinked.
  */
 #define __task_cred(task) \
-	((const struct cred *)(rcu_dereference_check((task)->real_cred, rcu_read_lock_held() || lockdep_is_held(&tasklist_lock))))
+	((const struct cred *)(rcu_dereference_check((task)->real_cred, rcu_read_lock_held() || lockdep_tasklist_lock_is_held())))
 
 /**
  * get_task_cred - Get another task's objective credentials
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 0eef87b..a47af20 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -258,6 +258,10 @@ extern spinlock_t mmlist_lock;
 
 struct task_struct;
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_PROVE_RCU
+extern int lockdep_tasklist_lock_is_held(void);
+#endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_PROVE_RCU */
+
 extern void sched_init(void);
 extern void sched_init_smp(void);
 extern asmlinkage void schedule_tail(struct task_struct *prev);
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 45ed043..fed3a4d 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ static void __exit_signal(struct task_struct *tsk)
 
 	sighand = rcu_dereference_check(tsk->sighand,
 					rcu_read_lock_held() ||
-					lockdep_is_held(&tasklist_lock));
+					lockdep_tasklist_lock_is_held());
 	spin_lock(&sighand->siglock);
 
 	posix_cpu_timers_exit(tsk);
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 17bbf09..8691c54 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -86,7 +86,14 @@ int max_threads;		/* tunable limit on nr_threads */
 DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, process_counts) = 0;
 
 __cacheline_aligned DEFINE_RWLOCK(tasklist_lock);  /* outer */
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tasklist_lock);
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_PROVE_RCU
+int lockdep_tasklist_lock_is_held(void)
+{
+	return lockdep_is_held(&tasklist_lock);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(lockdep_tasklist_lock_is_held);
+#endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_PROVE_RCU */
 
 int nr_processes(void)
 {
diff --git a/kernel/pid.c b/kernel/pid.c
index b08e697..b606440 100644
--- a/kernel/pid.c
+++ b/kernel/pid.c
@@ -367,7 +367,9 @@ struct task_struct *pid_task(struct pid *pid, enum pid_type type)
 	struct task_struct *result = NULL;
 	if (pid) {
 		struct hlist_node *first;
-		first = rcu_dereference_check(pid->tasks[type].first, rcu_read_lock_held() || lockdep_is_held(&tasklist_lock));
+		first = rcu_dereference_check(pid->tasks[type].first,
+					      rcu_read_lock_held() ||
+					      lockdep_tasklist_lock_is_held());
 		if (first)
 			result = hlist_entry(first, struct task_struct, pids[(type)].node);
 	}
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