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authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>2006-12-08 05:36:17 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org>2006-12-08 11:28:39 -0500
commitd63a5a74dee87883fda6b7d170244acaac5b05e8 (patch)
tree8b12bc626b8f1507b7b550865c5f8282bcac6c27 /kernel
parent6796bf54a64df36f96a42ae222423fffe36c58a5 (diff)
[PATCH] lockdep: avoid lockdep warning in md
md_open takes ->reconfig_mutex which causes lockdep to complain. This (normally) doesn't have deadlock potential as the possible conflict is with a reconfig_mutex in a different device. I say "normally" because if a loop were created in the array->member hierarchy a deadlock could happen. However that causes bigger problems than a deadlock and should be fixed independently. So we flag the lock in md_open as a nested lock. This requires defining mutex_lock_interruptible_nested. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/mutex.c9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/mutex.c b/kernel/mutex.c
index 8c71cf72a497..e7cbbb82765b 100644
--- a/kernel/mutex.c
+++ b/kernel/mutex.c
@@ -206,6 +206,15 @@ mutex_lock_nested(struct mutex *lock, unsigned int subclass)
206} 206}
207 207
208EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mutex_lock_nested); 208EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mutex_lock_nested);
209
210int __sched
211mutex_lock_interruptible_nested(struct mutex *lock, unsigned int subclass)
212{
213 might_sleep();
214 return __mutex_lock_common(lock, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE, subclass);
215}
216
217EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mutex_lock_interruptible_nested);
209#endif 218#endif
210 219
211/* 220/*