Re: [PATCH 1/1] lockdep: Kill held_lock->check and "int check" argof __lock_acquire()

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 06:06:09PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 01/12, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> >
> > The "int check" argument of lock_acquire() and held_lock->check
> > are misleading and unneeded. This is only used as a boolean, 2
> > denotes "true", everything else is "false". And this boolean is
> > always equal to prove_locking.
> >
> > The only exception is __lockdep_no_validate__ which should make
> > this condition "false" in validate_chain().
> 
> And I missed mark_irqflags(),
> 
> > @@ -3136,7 +3130,7 @@ static int __lock_acquire(struct lockdep_map *lock, unsigned int subclass,
> >  	hlock->holdtime_stamp = lockstat_clock();
> >  #endif
> >
> > -	if (check == 2 && !mark_irqflags(curr, hlock))
> > +	if (prove_locking && !mark_irqflags(curr, hlock))
> >  		return 0;
> 
> This change is not right, at least it is not equivalent.
> 
> And I just realized that rcu_lock_acquire() does lock_acquire(check => 1).
> Probably we can mark rcu_lock_map's as __lockdep_no_validate__.

Can't, RCU needs its own classes. Otherwise it cannot tell which version
of the RCU read lock its holding at just that moment.

> Anything else I missed?

Nothing springs to mind, but then, I totally missed the RCU thing too.

At the very least we can reduce check to a single bit.
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