Re: Q: lockdep_assert_held_read() after downgrade_write()

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 09:23:08AM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
> On 01/31/2017 06:25 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > @@ -40,8 +40,10 @@ static inline void rwsem_set_reader_owned(struct rw_semaphore *sem)
> >  	 * do a write to the rwsem cacheline when it is really necessary
> >  	 * to minimize cacheline contention.
> >  	 */
> > -	if (sem->owner != RWSEM_READER_OWNED)
> > +	if (sem->owner != RWSEM_READER_OWNED) {
> > +		WARN_ON_ONCE(sem->owner != current);
> >  		WRITE_ONCE(sem->owner, RWSEM_READER_OWNED);
> > +	}
> >  }
> >  
> >  static inline bool rwsem_owner_is_writer(struct task_struct *owner)
> 
> I don't think you can do a WARN_ON_ONCE() check for sem->owner !=
> current here. If the rwsem starts from an unlock state, sem->owner will
> be NULL and an incorrect warning message will be printed.

Argh, I only looked at the downgrade_write() user and forgot to look if
it was used elsewhere.