linux-kernel - [patch] lockdep: fixup the inode dir annotation

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Date:	Tue, 16 Oct 2007 06:47:54 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [patch] lockdep: fixup the inode dir annotation


* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> > please pull the lockdep tree from:
> > 
> >  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/linux-2.6-lockdep.git 
> >  v2.6.24-lockdep
> 
> Hmm. I'm now getting
> 
> 	WARNING: at kernel/lockdep.c:700 look_up_lock_class()

it triggered here too - the patch from Peter below was tested overnight 
and seems to do the trick for me.

	Ingo

--------------------->
Subject: lockdep: fixup the inode dir annotation

A slight oversight tripped lockdep debugging code, each lockdep
class should have but a single init site.

Rearange the code to make this true.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
---
 fs/inode.c |   18 +++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

Index: linux/fs/inode.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/fs/inode.c
+++ linux/fs/inode.c
@@ -568,16 +568,16 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(new_inode);
 void unlock_new_inode(struct inode *inode)
 {
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
-	struct file_system_type *type = inode->i_sb->s_type;
-	/*
-	 * ensure nobody is actually holding i_mutex
-	 */
-	mutex_destroy(&inode->i_mutex);
-	mutex_init(&inode->i_mutex);
-	if (inode->i_mode & S_IFDIR)
+	if (inode->i_mode & S_IFDIR) {
+		struct file_system_type *type = inode->i_sb->s_type;
+
+		/*
+		 * ensure nobody is actually holding i_mutex
+		 */
+		mutex_destroy(&inode->i_mutex);
+		mutex_init(&inode->i_mutex);
 		lockdep_set_class(&inode->i_mutex, &type->i_mutex_dir_key);
-	else
-		lockdep_set_class(&inode->i_mutex, &type->i_mutex_key);
+	}
 #endif
 	/*
 	 * This is special!  We do not need the spinlock
-
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