linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 15/17] kernfs: Mark kernfs_open_node

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Message-Id: <1542653726-5655-16-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com>
Date:   Mon, 19 Nov 2018 13:55:24 -0500
From:   Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kasan-dev@...glegroups.com,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 15/17] kernfs: Mark kernfs_open_node_lock as terminal lock

By making kernfs_open_node_lock a terminal spinlock, it reduces the
lockdep overhead when this lock is used.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
---
 fs/kernfs/file.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/kernfs/file.c b/fs/kernfs/file.c
index dbf5bc2..a86fe22 100644
--- a/fs/kernfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/kernfs/file.c
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
  * kernfs_open_file.  kernfs_open_files are chained at
  * kernfs_open_node->files, which is protected by kernfs_open_file_mutex.
  */
-static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(kernfs_open_node_lock);
+static DEFINE_TERMINAL_SPINLOCK(kernfs_open_node_lock);
 static DEFINE_MUTEX(kernfs_open_file_mutex);
 
 struct kernfs_open_node {
-- 
1.8.3.1