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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2010-03-03 10:46:56 -0500
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-03-04 05:46:14 -0500
commitdb1466b3e1bd1727375cdbfcbea4bcce2f860f61 (patch)
treee56e8d7b82f8851e570d95f531ec62e4d107967a /kernel/fork.c
parent0e064caf6402d1d67db4233d26beec88ca212919 (diff)
rcu: Use wrapper function instead of exporting tasklist_lock
Lockdep-RCU commit d11c563d exported tasklist_lock, which is not a good thing. This patch instead exports a function that uses lockdep to check whether tasklist_lock is held. Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> 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 Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> LKML-Reference: <1267631219-8713-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/fork.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 17bbf093356d..8691c540a470 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -86,7 +86,14 @@ int max_threads; /* tunable limit on nr_threads */
86DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, process_counts) = 0; 86DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, process_counts) = 0;
87 87
88__cacheline_aligned DEFINE_RWLOCK(tasklist_lock); /* outer */ 88__cacheline_aligned DEFINE_RWLOCK(tasklist_lock); /* outer */
89EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tasklist_lock); 89
90#ifdef CONFIG_PROVE_RCU
91int lockdep_tasklist_lock_is_held(void)
92{
93 return lockdep_is_held(&tasklist_lock);
94}
95EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(lockdep_tasklist_lock_is_held);
96#endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_PROVE_RCU */
90 97
91int nr_processes(void) 98int nr_processes(void)
92{ 99{