[RFC PATCH 2/4] lockdep: Let register_lock_class() can be called with/without graph_lock

From: Yong Zhang
Date: Fri Nov 04 2011 - 05:28:36 EST


Will be used in later patch which fix some race condition in
lock_set_class().

Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
---
kernel/lockdep.c | 14 +++++++++-----
1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/lockdep.c b/kernel/lockdep.c
index 4a16b0a..e7d38fa 100644
--- a/kernel/lockdep.c
+++ b/kernel/lockdep.c
@@ -711,9 +711,13 @@ look_up_lock_class(struct lockdep_map *lock, unsigned int subclass)
* Register a lock's class in the hash-table, if the class is not present
* yet. Otherwise we look it up. We cache the result in the lock object
* itself, so actual lookup of the hash should be once per lock object.
+ *
+ * NOTE: register_lock_class() can be called with/without graph_lock hold
+ * depending on @locked. But it will release graph_lock before return.
*/
static inline struct lock_class *
-register_lock_class(struct lockdep_map *lock, unsigned int subclass, int force)
+register_lock_class(struct lockdep_map *lock, unsigned int subclass,
+ int force, int locked)
{
struct lockdep_subclass_key *key;
struct list_head *hash_head;
@@ -741,7 +745,7 @@ register_lock_class(struct lockdep_map *lock, unsigned int subclass, int force)
hash_head = classhashentry(key);

raw_local_irq_save(flags);
- if (!graph_lock()) {
+ if (!locked && !graph_lock()) {
raw_local_irq_restore(flags);
return NULL;
}
@@ -2986,7 +2990,7 @@ void lockdep_init_map(struct lockdep_map *lock, const char *name,
return;

if (subclass)
- register_lock_class(lock, subclass, 1);
+ register_lock_class(lock, subclass, 1, 0);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(lockdep_init_map);

@@ -3032,7 +3036,7 @@ static int __lock_acquire(struct lockdep_map *lock, unsigned int subclass,
* Not cached?
*/
if (unlikely(!class)) {
- class = register_lock_class(lock, subclass, 0);
+ class = register_lock_class(lock, subclass, 0, 0);
if (!class)
return 0;
}
@@ -3276,7 +3280,7 @@ found_it:
/* optimizing for lock_set_subclass() */
if (key) {
lockdep_init_map(lock, name, key, 0);
- register_lock_class(lock, subclass, 0);
+ register_lock_class(lock, subclass, 0, 0);
}

curr->lockdep_depth = i;
--
1.7.5.4

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