rcu: Add debug check for too many rcu_read_unlock()

TREE_PREEMPT_RCU maintains an rcu_read_lock_nesting counter in
the task structure, which happens to be a signed int.  So this
patch adds a check for this counter being negative at the end of
__rcu_read_unlock(). This check is under CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING,
so can be thought of as being part of lockdep.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <12626498423064-git-send-email->
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
index f11ebd44b454..e77cdf321e13 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
+++ b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
@@ -304,6 +304,9 @@ void __rcu_read_unlock(void)
         if (--ACCESS_ONCE(t->rcu_read_lock_nesting) == 0 &&
             unlikely(ACCESS_ONCE(t->rcu_read_unlock_special)))
                 rcu_read_unlock_special(t);
+#ifdef CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING
+        WARN_ON_ONCE(ACCESS_ONCE(t->rcu_read_lock_nesting) < 0);
+#endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING */
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__rcu_read_unlock);