[patch 39/61] lock validator: special locking: s_lock

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon May 29 2006 - 17:33:51 EST


From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>

teach special (per-filesystem) locking code to the lock validator. Has no
effect on non-lockdep kernels.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
---
fs/super.c | 13 +++++++++----
include/linux/fs.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Index: linux/fs/super.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/fs/super.c
+++ linux/fs/super.c
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ DEFINE_SPINLOCK(sb_lock);
* Allocates and initializes a new &struct super_block. alloc_super()
* returns a pointer new superblock or %NULL if allocation had failed.
*/
-static struct super_block *alloc_super(void)
+static struct super_block *alloc_super(struct file_system_type *type)
{
struct super_block *s = kzalloc(sizeof(struct super_block), GFP_USER);
static struct super_operations default_op;
@@ -72,7 +72,12 @@ static struct super_block *alloc_super(v
INIT_HLIST_HEAD(&s->s_anon);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&s->s_inodes);
init_rwsem(&s->s_umount);
- mutex_init(&s->s_lock);
+ /*
+ * The locking rules for s_lock are up to the
+ * filesystem. For example ext3fs has different
+ * lock ordering than usbfs:
+ */
+ mutex_init_key(&s->s_lock, type->name, &type->s_lock_key);
down_write(&s->s_umount);
s->s_count = S_BIAS;
atomic_set(&s->s_active, 1);
@@ -297,7 +302,7 @@ retry:
}
if (!s) {
spin_unlock(&sb_lock);
- s = alloc_super();
+ s = alloc_super(type);
if (!s)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
goto retry;
@@ -696,7 +701,7 @@ struct super_block *get_sb_bdev(struct f
*/
mutex_lock(&bdev->bd_mount_mutex);
s = sget(fs_type, test_bdev_super, set_bdev_super, bdev);
- mutex_unlock(&bdev->bd_mount_mutex);
+ mutex_unlock_non_nested(&bdev->bd_mount_mutex);
if (IS_ERR(s))
goto out;

Index: linux/include/linux/fs.h
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/include/linux/fs.h
+++ linux/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -1307,6 +1307,7 @@ struct file_system_type {
struct module *owner;
struct file_system_type * next;
struct list_head fs_supers;
+ struct lockdep_type_key s_lock_key;
};

struct super_block *get_sb_bdev(struct file_system_type *fs_type,
-
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