Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/5] cpu-hotplug: Allow get_online_cpus() to nest

[Steven Rostedt]

On Fri, 12 May 2017 11:35:59 -0700
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 01:15:46PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Allow get_online_cpus() to be recursive. If a lock is taken while under
> > "get_online_cpus()", it can call get_online_cpus() as well, just as long as
> > it is never held without being under get_online_cpus(), but then calling it.
> > 
> >    GOC() -> Lock(X) -> GOC()
> > 
> > is OK, as long as
> > 
> >    Lock(X) -> GOC()
> > 
> > does not exist.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>  
> 
> Does ->goc_depth also need to be initialized in include/linux/init_task.h?
> 
> It seems like C-language initialization-to-zero would cover this,
> but there is a lot of initialization to zero values in init_task.h
> (including but not limited to some RCU stuff).

I assumed that it would just initialize it to zero.

OK, I need to add this:

-- Steve

diff --git a/include/linux/lockdep.h b/include/linux/lockdep.h
index fffe49f..be7f71b 100644
--- a/include/linux/lockdep.h
+++ b/include/linux/lockdep.h
@@ -375,7 +375,7 @@ extern struct pin_cookie lock_pin_lock(struct lockdep_map *lock);
 extern void lock_repin_lock(struct lockdep_map *lock, struct pin_cookie);
 extern void lock_unpin_lock(struct lockdep_map *lock, struct pin_cookie);
 
-# define INIT_LOCKDEP				.lockdep_recursion = 0, .lockdep_reclaim_gfp = 0,
+# define INIT_LOCKDEP				.lockdep_recursion = 0, .lockdep_reclaim_gfp = 0, .goc_depth = 0,
 
 #define lockdep_depth(tsk)	(debug_locks ? (tsk)->lockdep_depth : 0)