[tip:core/locking] lockdep: fix deadlock in lockdep_trace_alloc

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri Mar 20 2009 - 06:31:41 EST


Commit-ID: b0992675bc7a5eca3c6a5eeea5ed680cec09c8e7
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/b0992675bc7a5eca3c6a5eeea5ed680cec09c8e7
Author: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:13:20 +0100
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:23:15 +0100

lockdep: fix deadlock in lockdep_trace_alloc

Heiko reported that we grab the graph lock with irqs enabled.

Fix this by providng the same wrapper as all other lockdep entry
functions have.

Reported-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx>
LKML-Reference: <1237544000.24626.52.camel@twins>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>


---
kernel/lockdep.c | 16 +++++++++++++++-
1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/lockdep.c b/kernel/lockdep.c
index 77ac37f..c750038 100644
--- a/kernel/lockdep.c
+++ b/kernel/lockdep.c
@@ -2257,7 +2257,7 @@ void trace_softirqs_off(unsigned long ip)
debug_atomic_inc(&redundant_softirqs_off);
}

-void lockdep_trace_alloc(gfp_t gfp_mask)
+static void __lockdep_trace_alloc(gfp_t gfp_mask)
{
struct task_struct *curr = current;

@@ -2282,6 +2282,20 @@ void lockdep_trace_alloc(gfp_t gfp_mask)
mark_held_locks(curr, RECLAIM_FS);
}

+void lockdep_trace_alloc(gfp_t gfp_mask)
+{
+ unsigned long flags;
+
+ if (unlikely(current->lockdep_recursion))
+ return;
+
+ raw_local_irq_save(flags);
+ current->lockdep_recursion = 1;
+ __lockdep_trace_alloc(gfp_mask);
+ current->lockdep_recursion = 0;
+ raw_local_irq_restore(flags);
+}
+
static int mark_irqflags(struct task_struct *curr, struct held_lock *hlock)
{
/*
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