Eric Lee / smarc-fsl-linux-kernel

09 Dec, 2006

1 commit

  • d63a5a74d   [PATCH] lockdep: avoid lockdep warning in md ... Browse Code »

    md_open takes ->reconfig_mutex which causes lockdep to complain. This
    (normally) doesn't have deadlock potential as the possible conflict is with a
    reconfig_mutex in a different device.

    I say "normally" because if a loop were created in the array->member hierarchy
    a deadlock could happen. However that causes bigger problems than a deadlock
    and should be fixed independently.

    So we flag the lock in md_open as a nested lock. This requires defining
    mutex_lock_interruptible_nested.

    Cc: Ingo Molnar
    Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra
    Acked-by: Ingo Molnar
    Signed-off-by: Neil Brown
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    NeilBrown
     

04 Jul, 2006

4 commits

  • ef5d4707b   [PATCH] lockdep: prove mutex locking correctness ... Browse Code »

    Use the lock validator framework to prove mutex locking correctness.

    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
    Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Ingo Molnar
     
  • 9cebb5526   [PATCH] lockdep: mutex section binutils workaround ... Browse Code »

    Work around weird section nesting build bug causing smp-alternatives failures
    under certain circumstances.

    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
    Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Ingo Molnar
     
  • 9a11b49a8   [PATCH] lockdep: better lock debugging ... Browse Code »

    Generic lock debugging:

    - generalized lock debugging framework. For example, a bug in one lock
    subsystem turns off debugging in all lock subsystems.

    - got rid of the caller address passing (__IP__/__IP_DECL__/etc.) from
    the mutex/rtmutex debugging code: it caused way too much prototype
    hackery, and lockdep will give the same information anyway.

    - ability to do silent tests

    - check lock freeing in vfree too.

    - more finegrained debugging options, to allow distributions to
    turn off more expensive debugging features.

    There's no separate 'held mutexes' list anymore - but there's a 'held locks'
    stack within lockdep, which unifies deadlock detection across all lock
    classes. (this is independent of the lockdep validation stuff - lockdep first
    checks whether we are holding a lock already)

    Here are the current debugging options:

    CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES=y
    CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC=y

    which do:

    config DEBUG_MUTEXES
    bool "Mutex debugging, basic checks"

    config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
    bool "Detect incorrect freeing of live mutexes"

    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
    Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Ingo Molnar
     
  • 9e7f4d451   [PATCH] lockdep: rename DEBUG_WARN_ON() ... Browse Code »

    Rename DEBUG_WARN_ON() to the less generic DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON() name, so that
    it's clear that this is a lock-debugging internal mechanism.

    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Ingo Molnar
     

27 Jun, 2006

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11 Jan, 2006

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10 Jan, 2006

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