Re: [PATCH] locking/lockdep: Avoid recursion in lockdep_count_{for,back}ward_deps()

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 09:04:22PM -0400, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 10:33:25AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> Thanks Peter and Boqun, the below patch makes sense to me. Just had some nits
> below, otherwise:
> > @@ -1719,11 +1725,11 @@ unsigned long lockdep_count_forward_deps
> >  	this.class = class;
> >  
> >  	raw_local_irq_save(flags);
> > -	current->lockdep_recursion = 1;
> > +	current->lockdep_recursion++;
> >  	arch_spin_lock(&lockdep_lock);
> >  	ret = __lockdep_count_forward_deps(&this);
> >  	arch_spin_unlock(&lockdep_lock);
> > -	current->lockdep_recursion = 0;
> > +	current->lockdep_recursion--;
> 
> This doesn't look like it should recurse. Why not just use the
> lockdep_recursion_finish() helper here?

I chose to only add that to the sites that check recursion on entry.