linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/2] mm: mmap: annotate vm_lock_anon

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Date:	Sat, 5 Jan 2013 01:35:45 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
To:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] mm: mmap: annotate vm_lock_anon_vma locking properly
 for lockdep

Commit 5a505085f04 ("mm/rmap: Convert the struct anon_vma::mutex to an 
rwsem") turned anon_vma mutex to rwsem.

However, the properly annotated nested locking in mm_take_all_locks() has 
been converted from

	mutex_lock_nest_lock(&anon_vma->root->mutex, &mm->mmap_sem);

to

	down_write(&anon_vma->root->rwsem);

which is incomplete, and causes the false positive report from lockdep below.

Annotate the fact that mmap_sem is used as an outter lock to serialize taking
of all the anon_vma rwsems at once no matter the order, using the
down_write_nest_lock() primitive.

This patch fixes this lockdep report:

 =============================================
 [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
 3.8.0-rc2-00036-g5f73896 #171 Not tainted
 ---------------------------------------------
 qemu-kvm/2315 is trying to acquire lock:
  (&anon_vma->rwsem){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffff8115d549>] mm_take_all_locks+0x149/0x1b0

 but task is already holding lock:
  (&anon_vma->rwsem){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffff8115d549>] mm_take_all_locks+0x149/0x1b0

 other info that might help us debug this:
  Possible unsafe locking scenario:

        CPU0
        ----
   lock(&anon_vma->rwsem);
   lock(&anon_vma->rwsem);

  *** DEADLOCK ***

  May be due to missing lock nesting notation

 4 locks held by qemu-kvm/2315:
  #0:  (&mm->mmap_sem){++++++}, at: [<ffffffff81177f1c>] do_mmu_notifier_register+0xfc/0x170
  #1:  (mm_all_locks_mutex){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffff8115d436>] mm_take_all_locks+0x36/0x1b0
  #2:  (&mapping->i_mmap_mutex){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffff8115d4c9>] mm_take_all_locks+0xc9/0x1b0
  #3:  (&anon_vma->rwsem){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffff8115d549>] mm_take_all_locks+0x149/0x1b0

 stack backtrace:
 Pid: 2315, comm: qemu-kvm Not tainted 3.8.0-rc2-00036-g5f73896 #171
 Call Trace:
  [<ffffffff810afea2>] print_deadlock_bug+0xf2/0x100
  [<ffffffff810b1a76>] validate_chain+0x4f6/0x720
  [<ffffffff810b1ff9>] __lock_acquire+0x359/0x580
  [<ffffffff810b0e7d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x12d/0x1b0
  [<ffffffff810b2341>] lock_acquire+0x121/0x190
  [<ffffffff8115d549>] ? mm_take_all_locks+0x149/0x1b0
  [<ffffffff815a12bf>] down_write+0x3f/0x70
  [<ffffffff8115d549>] ? mm_take_all_locks+0x149/0x1b0
  [<ffffffff8115d549>] mm_take_all_locks+0x149/0x1b0
  [<ffffffff81177e88>] do_mmu_notifier_register+0x68/0x170
  [<ffffffff81177fae>] mmu_notifier_register+0xe/0x10
  [<ffffffffa04bd6ab>] kvm_create_vm+0x22b/0x330 [kvm]
  [<ffffffffa04bd8a8>] kvm_dev_ioctl+0xf8/0x1a0 [kvm]
  [<ffffffff811a45bd>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x9d/0x350
  [<ffffffff815ad215>] ? sysret_check+0x22/0x5d
  [<ffffffff811a4901>] sys_ioctl+0x91/0xb0
  [<ffffffff815ad1e9>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
---
 mm/mmap.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index f54b235..35730ee 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -2886,7 +2886,7 @@ static void vm_lock_anon_vma(struct mm_struct *mm, struct anon_vma *anon_vma)
 		 * The LSB of head.next can't change from under us
 		 * because we hold the mm_all_locks_mutex.
 		 */
-		down_write(&anon_vma->root->rwsem);
+		down_write_nest_lock(&anon_vma->root->rwsem, &mm->mmap_sem);
 		/*
 		 * We can safely modify head.next after taking the
 		 * anon_vma->root->rwsem. If some other vma in this mm shares
-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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