Re: [RFC 1/2] mm: additional page lock debugging

[Sasha Levin]

On 12/31/2013 11:26 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 10:22:02PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
>
> > I really want to use lockdep here, but I'm not really sure how to handle locks which live
> > for a rather long while instead of being locked and unlocked in the same function like
> > most of the rest of the kernel. (Cc Ingo, PeterZ).
>
> Uh what? Lockdep doesn't care about which function locks and unlocks a
> particular lock. Nor does it care how long its held for.

Sorry, I messed up trying to explain that.

There are several places in the code which lock a large amount of pages, something like:

	for (i = 0; i < (1 << order); i++)
		lock_page(&pages[i]);


This triggers two problems:

 - lockdep complains about deadlock since we try to lock another page while one is already
locked. I can clear that by allowing page locks to nest within each other, but that seems
wrong and we'll miss actual deadlock cases.

 - We may leave back to userspace with pages still locked. This is valid behaviour but lockdep
doesn't like that.


Thanks,
Sasha

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