locking/lockdep: Remove the cross-release locking checks

This code (CONFIG_LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE=y and CONFIG_LOCKDEP_COMPLETIONS=y),
while it found a number of old bugs initially, was also causing too many
false positives that caused people to disable lockdep - which is arguably
a worse overall outcome.

If we disable cross-release by default but keep the code upstream then
in practice the most likely outcome is that we'll allow the situation
to degrade gradually, by allowing entropy to introduce more and more
false positives, until it overwhelms maintenance capacity.

Another bad side effect was that people were trying to work around
the false positives by uglifying/complicating unrelated code. There's
a marked difference between annotating locking operations and
uglifying good code just due to bad lock debugging code ...

This gradual decrease in quality happened to a number of debugging
facilities in the kernel, and lockdep is pretty complex already,
so we cannot risk this outcome.

Either cross-release checking can be done right with no false positives,
or it should not be included in the upstream kernel.

( Note that it might make sense to maintain it out of tree and go through
  the false positives every now and then and see whether new bugs were
  introduced. )

Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 125 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/lockdep.h b/include/linux/lockdep.h
index a842551fe044..2e75dc34bff5 100644
--- a/include/linux/lockdep.h
+++ b/include/linux/lockdep.h
@@ -158,12 +158,6 @@ struct lockdep_map {
         int                             cpu;
         unsigned long                   ip;
 #endif
-#ifdef CONFIG_LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE
-        /*
-         * Whether it's a crosslock.
-         */
-        int                             cross;
-#endif
 };
 
 static inline void lockdep_copy_map(struct lockdep_map *to,
@@ -267,96 +261,9 @@ struct held_lock {
         unsigned int hardirqs_off:1;
         unsigned int references:12;                                     /* 32 bits */
         unsigned int pin_count;
-#ifdef CONFIG_LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE
-        /*
-         * Generation id.
-         *
-         * A value of cross_gen_id will be stored when holding this,
-         * which is globally increased whenever each crosslock is held.
-         */
-        unsigned int gen_id;
-#endif
-};
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE
-#define MAX_XHLOCK_TRACE_ENTRIES 5
-
-/*
- * This is for keeping locks waiting for commit so that true dependencies
- * can be added at commit step.
- */
-struct hist_lock {
-        /*
-         * Id for each entry in the ring buffer. This is used to
-         * decide whether the ring buffer was overwritten or not.
-         *
-         * For example,
-         *
-         *           |<----------- hist_lock ring buffer size ------->|
-         *           pppppppppppppppppppppiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
-         * wrapped > iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii.......................
-         *
-         *           where 'p' represents an acquisition in process
-         *           context, 'i' represents an acquisition in irq
-         *           context.
-         *
-         * In this example, the ring buffer was overwritten by
-         * acquisitions in irq context, that should be detected on
-         * rollback or commit.
-         */
-        unsigned int hist_id;
-
-        /*
-         * Seperate stack_trace data. This will be used at commit step.
-         */
-        struct stack_trace      trace;
-        unsigned long           trace_entries[MAX_XHLOCK_TRACE_ENTRIES];
-
-        /*
-         * Seperate hlock instance. This will be used at commit step.
-         *
-         * TODO: Use a smaller data structure containing only necessary
-         * data. However, we should make lockdep code able to handle the
-         * smaller one first.
-         */
-        struct held_lock        hlock;
 };
 
 /*
- * To initialize a lock as crosslock, lockdep_init_map_crosslock() should
- * be called instead of lockdep_init_map().
- */
-struct cross_lock {
-        /*
-         * When more than one acquisition of crosslocks are overlapped,
-         * we have to perform commit for them based on cross_gen_id of
-         * the first acquisition, which allows us to add more true
-         * dependencies.
-         *
-         * Moreover, when no acquisition of a crosslock is in progress,
-         * we should not perform commit because the lock might not exist
-         * any more, which might cause incorrect memory access. So we
-         * have to track the number of acquisitions of a crosslock.
-         */
-        int nr_acquire;
-
-        /*
-         * Seperate hlock instance. This will be used at commit step.
-         *
-         * TODO: Use a smaller data structure containing only necessary
-         * data. However, we should make lockdep code able to handle the
-         * smaller one first.
-         */
-        struct held_lock        hlock;
-};
-
-struct lockdep_map_cross {
-        struct lockdep_map map;
-        struct cross_lock xlock;
-};
-#endif
-
-/*
  * Initialization, self-test and debugging-output methods:
  */
 extern void lockdep_info(void);
@@ -560,37 +467,6 @@ enum xhlock_context_t {
         XHLOCK_CTX_NR,
 };
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE
-extern void lockdep_init_map_crosslock(struct lockdep_map *lock,
-                                       const char *name,
-                                       struct lock_class_key *key,
-                                       int subclass);
-extern void lock_commit_crosslock(struct lockdep_map *lock);
-
-/*
- * What we essencially have to initialize is 'nr_acquire'. Other members
- * will be initialized in add_xlock().
- */
-#define STATIC_CROSS_LOCK_INIT() \
-        { .nr_acquire = 0,}
-
-#define STATIC_CROSS_LOCKDEP_MAP_INIT(_name, _key) \
-        { .map.name = (_name), .map.key = (void *)(_key), \
-          .map.cross = 1, .xlock = STATIC_CROSS_LOCK_INIT(), }
-
-/*
- * To initialize a lockdep_map statically use this macro.
- * Note that _name must not be NULL.
- */
-#define STATIC_LOCKDEP_MAP_INIT(_name, _key) \
-        { .name = (_name), .key = (void *)(_key), .cross = 0, }
-
-extern void crossrelease_hist_start(enum xhlock_context_t c);
-extern void crossrelease_hist_end(enum xhlock_context_t c);
-extern void lockdep_invariant_state(bool force);
-extern void lockdep_init_task(struct task_struct *task);
-extern void lockdep_free_task(struct task_struct *task);
-#else /* !CROSSRELEASE */
 #define lockdep_init_map_crosslock(m, n, k, s) do {} while (0)
 /*
  * To initialize a lockdep_map statically use this macro.
@@ -604,7 +480,6 @@ static inline void crossrelease_hist_end(enum xhlock_context_t c) {}
 static inline void lockdep_invariant_state(bool force) {}
 static inline void lockdep_init_task(struct task_struct *task) {}
 static inline void lockdep_free_task(struct task_struct *task) {}
-#endif /* CROSSRELEASE */
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_LOCK_STAT