Re: [PATCH RFC] drivers/core: Replace lockdep_set_novalidate_class() with unique class keys

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 05:51:11PM -0800, Boqun Feng wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 05:29:49PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 10:25:59AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 10:24:13AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 10:23:44AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> > > > > Provided it acquires the parent device's lock first, this is 
> > > > > utterly safe no matter what order the children are locked in.  Try 
> > > > > telling that to lockdep! 
> > > > 
> > > > mutex_lock_next_lock(child->lock, parent->lock) is there to express this
> > > > exact pattern, it allows taking multiple child->lock class locks (in any
> > > > order) provided parent->lock is held.
> > > 
> > > Ah, this is news to me.  Is this sort of thing documented somewhere?
> 
> Basically if you have two lock instances A and B with the same class,
> and you know that locking ordering is always A -> B, then you can do
> 
> 	mutex_lock(A);
> 	mutex_lock_nest_lock(B, A); // lock B.
> 

No, this isn't quite right, You need at least 3 locks and 2 classes.

P, C1, C2

Then:

	mutex_lock(P)
	mutex_lock_next_lock(C1, P)
	mutex_lock_next_lock(C2, P)

And it will accept any order of Cn -- since it assumes that any
multi-lock of Cn will always hold P, therefore the ordering fully given
by P.