lockdep: spin_lock_nest_lock()

Expose the new lock protection lock.

This can be used to annotate places where we take multiple locks of the
same class and avoid deadlocks by always taking another (top-level) lock
first.

NOTE: we're still bound to the MAX_LOCK_DEPTH (48) limit.

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

3 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/lockdep.h b/include/linux/lockdep.h
index 93a8cc02a033..4452c04a7f6e 100644
--- a/include/linux/lockdep.h
+++ b/include/linux/lockdep.h
@@ -410,8 +410,10 @@ static inline void print_irqtrace_events(struct task_struct *curr)
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
 # ifdef CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING
 #  define spin_acquire(l, s, t, i)              lock_acquire(l, s, t, 0, 2, NULL, i)
+#  define spin_acquire_nest(l, s, t, n, i)      lock_acquire(l, s, t, 0, 2, n, i)
 # else
 #  define spin_acquire(l, s, t, i)              lock_acquire(l, s, t, 0, 1, NULL, i)
+#  define spin_acquire_nest(l, s, t, n, i)      lock_acquire(l, s, t, 0, 1, NULL, i)
 # endif
 # define spin_release(l, n, i)                  lock_release(l, n, i)
 #else
diff --git a/include/linux/spinlock.h b/include/linux/spinlock.h
index 61e5610ad165..e0c0fccced46 100644
--- a/include/linux/spinlock.h
+++ b/include/linux/spinlock.h
@@ -183,8 +183,14 @@ do {								\
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
 # define spin_lock_nested(lock, subclass) _spin_lock_nested(lock, subclass)
+# define spin_lock_nest_lock(lock, nest_lock)                           \
+         do {                                                           \
+                 typecheck(struct lockdep_map *, &(nest_lock)->dep_map);\
+                 _spin_lock_nest_lock(lock, &(nest_lock)->dep_map);     \
+         } while (0)
 #else
 # define spin_lock_nested(lock, subclass) _spin_lock(lock)
+# define spin_lock_nest_lock(lock, nest_lock) _spin_lock(lock)
 #endif
 
 #define write_lock(lock)                _write_lock(lock)
diff --git a/include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h b/include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h
index 8a2307ce7296..d79845d034b5 100644
--- a/include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h
+++ b/include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ int in_lock_functions(unsigned long addr);
 void __lockfunc _spin_lock(spinlock_t *lock)            __acquires(lock);
 void __lockfunc _spin_lock_nested(spinlock_t *lock, int subclass)
                                                         __acquires(lock);
+void __lockfunc _spin_lock_nest_lock(spinlock_t *lock, struct lockdep_map *map)
+                                                        __acquires(lock);
 void __lockfunc _read_lock(rwlock_t *lock)              __acquires(lock);
 void __lockfunc _write_lock(rwlock_t *lock)             __acquires(lock);
 void __lockfunc _spin_lock_bh(spinlock_t *lock)         __acquires(lock);