Re: [patch 34/61] lock validator: special locking: bdev

[Andrew Morton]

On Mon, 29 May 2006 23:25:54 +0200
Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> 
> teach special (recursive) locking code to the lock validator. Has no
> effect on non-lockdep kernels.
> 

There's no description here of the problem which is being worked around. 
This leaves everyone in the dark.

> +static int
> +blkdev_get_whole(struct block_device *bdev, mode_t mode, unsigned flags)
> +{
> +	/*
> +	 * This crockload is due to bad choice of ->open() type.
> +	 * It will go away.
> +	 * For now, block device ->open() routine must _not_
> +	 * examine anything in 'inode' argument except ->i_rdev.
> +	 */
> +	struct file fake_file = {};
> +	struct dentry fake_dentry = {};
> +	fake_file.f_mode = mode;
> +	fake_file.f_flags = flags;
> +	fake_file.f_dentry = &fake_dentry;
> +	fake_dentry.d_inode = bdev->bd_inode;
> +
> +	return do_open(bdev, &fake_file, BD_MUTEX_WHOLE);
> +}

"crock" is a decent description ;)

How long will this live, and what will the fix look like?

(This is all a bit of a pain - carrying these patches in -mm will require
some effort, and they're not ready to go yet, which will lengthen the pain
arbitrarily).

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