Re: lockdep: possible reason: unannotated irqs-off. (was: Re:Linux 2.6.38-rc4)

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Feb 08 2011 - 09:16:59 EST


On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 14:48 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> Well that and modifying softirq bits for a lockdep annotation really
> feels wrong.

How about we revert it for this release and try again later?

---
Subject: lockdep, timer: Revert the del_timer_sync() annotation

Both attempts at trying to allow softirq usage failed, revert for this
release and try again later.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/timer.c | 8 +++-----
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/timer.c b/kernel/timer.c
index 343ff27..c848cd8 100644
--- a/kernel/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/timer.c
@@ -959,7 +959,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(try_to_del_timer_sync);
*
* Synchronization rules: Callers must prevent restarting of the timer,
* otherwise this function is meaningless. It must not be called from
- * hardirq contexts. The caller must not hold locks which would prevent
+ * interrupt contexts. The caller must not hold locks which would prevent
* completion of the timer's handler. The timer's handler must not call
* add_timer_on(). Upon exit the timer is not queued and the handler is
* not running on any CPU.
@@ -971,12 +971,10 @@ int del_timer_sync(struct timer_list *timer)
#ifdef CONFIG_LOCKDEP
unsigned long flags;

- raw_local_irq_save(flags);
- local_bh_disable();
+ local_irq_save(flags);
lock_map_acquire(&timer->lockdep_map);
lock_map_release(&timer->lockdep_map);
- _local_bh_enable();
- raw_local_irq_restore(flags);
+ local_irq_restore(flags);
#endif
/*
* don't use it in hardirq context, because it


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