linux-kernel - [PATCH] tty: add lockdep annotations

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Date:	Thu, 31 May 2012 11:35:18 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jens Axboe <jaxboe@...ionio.com>
Subject: [PATCH] tty: add lockdep annotations

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

tty_lock_pair() do the right thing to avoid deadlocks, but should
instruct LOCKDEP of this to avoid a splat. 

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
---
Latest Linus tree still hang on my machine, at least this patch removes
the lockdep problem...

 drivers/tty/tty_mutex.c |   19 +++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_mutex.c b/drivers/tty/tty_mutex.c
index 69adc80..67feac9 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/tty_mutex.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_mutex.c
@@ -6,11 +6,17 @@
 
 /* Legacy tty mutex glue */
 
+enum {
+	TTY_MUTEX_NORMAL,
+	TTY_MUTEX_NESTED,
+};
+
 /*
  * Getting the big tty mutex.
  */
 
-void __lockfunc tty_lock(struct tty_struct *tty)
+static void __lockfunc tty_lock_nested(struct tty_struct *tty,
+				       unsigned int subclass)
 {
 	if (tty->magic != TTY_MAGIC) {
 		printk(KERN_ERR "L Bad %p\n", tty);
@@ -18,7 +24,12 @@ void __lockfunc tty_lock(struct tty_struct *tty)
 		return;
 	}
 	tty_kref_get(tty);
-	mutex_lock(&tty->legacy_mutex);
+	mutex_lock_nested(&tty->legacy_mutex, subclass);
+}
+
+void __lockfunc tty_lock(struct tty_struct *tty)
+{
+	return tty_lock_nested(tty, TTY_MUTEX_NORMAL);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(tty_lock);
 
@@ -43,11 +54,11 @@ void __lockfunc tty_lock_pair(struct tty_struct *tty,
 {
 	if (tty < tty2) {
 		tty_lock(tty);
-		tty_lock(tty2);
+		tty_lock_nested(tty2, TTY_MUTEX_NESTED);
 	} else {
 		if (tty2 && tty2 != tty)
 			tty_lock(tty2);
-		tty_lock(tty);
+		tty_lock_nested(tty, TTY_MUTEX_NESTED);
 	}
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(tty_lock_pair);


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