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author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2006-07-03 03:25:33 -0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-07-03 18:27:10 -0400 |
commit | 663d440eaa496db903cc58be04b9b602ba45e43b (patch) | |
tree | 8af6967e175693f1c163a106a1d84be7a1bd0bfc /Documentation/sgi-visws.txt | |
parent | 2b2d5493e10051694ae3a57ea6a153e3cb4d4488 (diff) |
[PATCH] lockdep: annotate blkdev nesting
Teach special (recursive) locking code to the lock validator.
Effects on non-lockdep kernels:
- the introduction of the following function variants:
extern struct block_device *open_partition_by_devnum(dev_t, unsigned);
extern int blkdev_put_partition(struct block_device *);
static int
blkdev_get_whole(struct block_device *bdev, mode_t mode, unsigned flags);
which on non-lockdep are the same as open_by_devnum(), blkdev_put()
and blkdev_get().
- a subclass parameter to do_open(). [unused on non-lockdep]
- a subclass parameter to __blkdev_put(), which is a new internal
function for the main blkdev_put*() functions. [parameter unused
on non-lockdep kernels, except for two sanity check WARN_ON()s]
these functions carry no semantical difference - they only express
object dependencies towards the lockdep subsystem.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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