linux-kernel - [PATCH] cgroups: fix lockdep subclasses overflow

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Message-ID: <49895BD7.8090405@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:11:51 +0800
From:	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Containers <containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH] cgroups: fix lockdep subclasses overflow

I enabled all cgroup subsystems when compiling kernel, and then:
 # mount -t cgroup -o net_cls xxx /mnt
 # mkdir /mnt/0

This showed up immediately:
 BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_SUBCLASSES too low!
 turning off the locking correctness validator.

It's caused by the cgroup hierarchy lock:
	for (i = 0; i < CGROUP_SUBSYS_COUNT; i++) {
		struct cgroup_subsys *ss = subsys[i];
		if (ss->root == root)
			mutex_lock_nested(&ss->hierarchy_mutex, i);
	}

Now we have 9 cgroup subsystems, and the above 'i' for net_cls is 9, but
MAX_LOCKDEP_SUBCLASSES is 8.

This patch uses different lockdep keys for different subsystems.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
---
 include/linux/cgroup.h |    1 +
 kernel/cgroup.c        |    3 ++-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/cgroup.h b/include/linux/cgroup.h
index e4e8e11..499900d 100644
--- a/include/linux/cgroup.h
+++ b/include/linux/cgroup.h
@@ -378,6 +378,7 @@ struct cgroup_subsys {
 	 * - initiating hotplug events
 	 */
 	struct mutex hierarchy_mutex;
+	struct lock_class_key subsys_key;
 
 	/*
 	 * Link to parent, and list entry in parent's children.
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index 5a54ff4..e14db9c 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -2351,7 +2351,7 @@ static void cgroup_lock_hierarchy(struct cgroupfs_root *root)
 	for (i = 0; i < CGROUP_SUBSYS_COUNT; i++) {
 		struct cgroup_subsys *ss = subsys[i];
 		if (ss->root == root)
-			mutex_lock_nested(&ss->hierarchy_mutex, i);
+			mutex_lock(&ss->hierarchy_mutex);
 	}
 }
 
@@ -2637,6 +2637,7 @@ static void __init cgroup_init_subsys(struct cgroup_subsys *ss)
 	BUG_ON(!list_empty(&init_task.tasks));
 
 	mutex_init(&ss->hierarchy_mutex);
+	lockdep_set_class(&ss->hierarchy_mutex, &ss->subsys_key);
 	ss->active = 1;
 }
 
-- 
1.5.4.rc3



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