lockdep: lock protection locks

On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 16:26 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, David Miller wrote:
> >
> > Taking more than a few locks of the same class at once is bad
> > news and it's better to find an alternative method.
>
> It's not always wrong.
>
> If you can guarantee that anybody that takes more than one lock of a
> particular class will always take a single top-level lock _first_, then
> that's all good. You can obviously screw up and take the same lock _twice_
> (which will deadlock), but at least you cannot get into ABBA situations.
>
> So maybe the right thing to do is to just teach lockdep about "lock
> protection locks". That would have solved the multi-queue issues for
> networking too - all the actual network drivers would still have taken
> just their single queue lock, but the one case that needs to take all of
> them would have taken a separate top-level lock first.
>
> Never mind that the multi-queue locks were always taken in the same order:
> it's never wrong to just have some top-level serialization, and anybody
> who needs to take <n> locks might as well do <n+1>, because they sure as
> hell aren't going to be on _any_ fastpaths.
>
> So the simplest solution really sounds like just teaching lockdep about
> that one special case. It's not "nesting" exactly, although it's obviously
> related to it.

Do as Linus suggested. The lock protection lock is called nest_lock.

Note that we still have the MAX_LOCK_DEPTH (48) limit to consider, so anything
that spills that it still up shit creek.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/rcuclassic.h b/include/linux/rcuclassic.h
index 8c774905dcfe..4ab843622727 100644
--- a/include/linux/rcuclassic.h
+++ b/include/linux/rcuclassic.h
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ extern int rcu_needs_cpu(int cpu);
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
 extern struct lockdep_map rcu_lock_map;
 # define rcu_read_acquire()     \
-                        lock_acquire(&rcu_lock_map, 0, 0, 2, 1, _THIS_IP_)
+                        lock_acquire(&rcu_lock_map, 0, 0, 2, 1, NULL, _THIS_IP_)
 # define rcu_read_release()     lock_release(&rcu_lock_map, 1, _THIS_IP_)
 #else
 # define rcu_read_acquire()     do { } while (0)