From: Steven Rostedt For some reason nr_chain_hlocks is updated with cmpxchg, but this is performed inside of the lockdep global "grab_lock()", which also makes simple modification of this variable atomic. Remove the cmpxchg logic for updating nr_chain_hlocks and simplify the code. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- kernel/lockdep.c | 14 ++++---------- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/lockdep.c b/kernel/lockdep.c index 3b1ac92..60bce52 100644 --- a/kernel/lockdep.c +++ b/kernel/lockdep.c @@ -1973,7 +1973,7 @@ static inline int lookup_chain_cache(struct task_struct *curr, struct list_head *hash_head = chainhashentry(chain_key); struct lock_chain *chain; struct held_lock *hlock_curr, *hlock_next; - int i, j, n, cn; + int i, j; if (DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(!irqs_disabled())) return 0; @@ -2033,15 +2033,9 @@ cache_hit: } i++; chain->depth = curr->lockdep_depth + 1 - i; - cn = nr_chain_hlocks; - while (cn + chain->depth <= MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAIN_HLOCKS) { - n = cmpxchg(&nr_chain_hlocks, cn, cn + chain->depth); - if (n == cn) - break; - cn = n; - } - if (likely(cn + chain->depth <= MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAIN_HLOCKS)) { - chain->base = cn; + if (likely(nr_chain_hlocks + chain->depth <= MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAIN_HLOCKS)) { + chain->base = nr_chain_hlocks; + nr_chain_hlocks += chain->depth; for (j = 0; j < chain->depth - 1; j++, i++) { int lock_id = curr->held_locks[i].class_idx - 1; chain_hlocks[chain->base + j] = lock_id; -- 1.7.2.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/