[tip:core/urgent] Revert "lockdep, timer: Fix del_timer_sync() annotation"

From: tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Feb 08 2011 - 10:53:05 EST


Commit-ID: 7ff207928eb0761fa6b6c39eda82ac07a5241acf
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/7ff207928eb0761fa6b6c39eda82ac07a5241acf
Author: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 15:18:00 +0100
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 16:18:39 +0100

Revert "lockdep, timer: Fix del_timer_sync() annotation"

Both attempts at trying to allow softirq usage for
del_timer_sync() failed (produced bogus warnings),
so revert the commit for this release:

f266a5110d45: lockdep, timer: Fix del_timer_sync() annotation

and try again later.

Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
LKML-Reference: <1297174680.13327.107.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
---
kernel/timer.c | 8 +++-----
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/timer.c b/kernel/timer.c
index d53ce66..d645992 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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