lockdep, rwsem: provide down_write_nest_lock()

down_write_nest_lock() provides a means to annotate locking scenario
where an outer lock is guaranteed to serialize the order nested locks
are being acquired.

This is analogoue to already existing mutex_lock_nest_lock() and
spin_lock_nest_lock().

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/rwsem.c b/kernel/rwsem.c
index 6850f53e02d8..b3c6c3fcd847 100644
--- a/kernel/rwsem.c
+++ b/kernel/rwsem.c
@@ -116,6 +116,16 @@ void down_read_nested(struct rw_semaphore *sem, int subclass)
 
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(down_read_nested);
 
+void _down_write_nest_lock(struct rw_semaphore *sem, struct lockdep_map *nest)
+{
+        might_sleep();
+        rwsem_acquire_nest(&sem->dep_map, 0, 0, nest, _RET_IP_);
+
+        LOCK_CONTENDED(sem, __down_write_trylock, __down_write);
+}
+
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(_down_write_nest_lock);
+
 void down_write_nested(struct rw_semaphore *sem, int subclass)
 {
         might_sleep();