Date:   Tue, 11 Dec 2018 14:13:06 -0800
From:   Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>
To:     peterz@...radead.org
Cc:     mingo@...hat.com, tj@...nel.org, longman@...hat.com,
        johannes.berg@...el.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>
Subject: [PATCH v4 00/15] locking/lockdep: Add support for dynamic keys

Hi Peter and Ingo,

A known shortcoming of the current lockdep implementation is that it requires
lock keys to be allocated statically. This forces certain unrelated
synchronization objects to share keys and this key sharing can cause false
positive deadlock reports. This patch series adds support for dynamic keys in
the lockdep code and eliminates a class of false positive reports from the
workqueue implementation.

The changes compared to v3 are:
- Rework the code that frees objects that are no longer used such that it
  is now guaranteed that a grace period elapses between last use and freeing.
- The lockdep self tests pass again.
- Avoid that the patch that removes all matching lock order entries can
  cause list corruption. Note: the change in this patch to realize that
  is removed again by a later patch. In other words, this change is only
  necessary to make the series bisectable.

The changes compared to v2 are:
- Made sure that all schedule_free_zapped_classes() calls are protected
  with the graph lock.
- When removing a lock class, only recalculate lock chains that have been
  modified.
- Combine a list_del() and list_add_tail() call into a list_move_tail()
  call in register_lock_class().
- Use an RCU read lock instead of the graph lock inside is_dynamic_key().

The changes compared to v1 are:
- Addressed Peter's review comments: remove the list_head that I had added
  to struct lock_list again, replaced all_list_entries and free_list_entries
  by two bitmaps, use call_rcu() to free lockdep objects, add a BUILD_BUG_ON()
  that compares the size of struct lock_class_key and raw_spin_lock_t.
- Addressed the "unknown symbol" errors reported by the build bot by adding a
  few #ifdef / #endif directives. Addressed the 32-bit warnings by using %d
  instead of %ld for array indices and by casting the array indices to
  unsigned int.
- Removed several WARN_ON_ONCE(!class->hash_entry.pprev) statements since
  these duplicate the code in check_data_structures().
- Left out the patch that causes lockdep to complain if no name has been
  assigned to a lock object. That patch namely causes the build bot to
  complain about certain lock objects but I have not yet had the time to
  figure out the identity of these lock objects.
  
Bart.

Bart Van Assche (15):
  locking/lockdep: Fix required memory size reported if
    CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=n
  locking/lockdep: Make zap_class() remove all matching lock order
    entries
  locking/lockdep: Reorder struct lock_class members
  locking/lockdep: Initialize the locks_before and locks_after lists
    earlier
  locking/lockdep: Split lockdep_free_key_range() and
    lockdep_reset_lock()
  locking/lockdep: Make it easy to detect whether or not inside a
    selftest
  locking/lockdep: Free lock classes that are no longer in use
  locking/lockdep: Reuse list entries that are no longer in use
  locking/lockdep: Introduce lockdep_next_lockchain() and
    lock_chain_count()
  locking/lockdep: Reuse lock chains that have been freed
  locking/lockdep: Check data structure consistency
  locking/lockdep: Verify whether lock objects are small enough to be
    used as class keys
  locking/lockdep: Add support for dynamic keys
  kernel/workqueue: Use dynamic lockdep keys for workqueues
  lockdep tests: Test dynamic key registration

 include/linux/lockdep.h                       |  38 +-
 include/linux/workqueue.h                     |  28 +-
 kernel/locking/lockdep.c                      | 884 ++++++++++++++++--
 kernel/locking/lockdep_internals.h            |   3 +-
 kernel/locking/lockdep_proc.c                 |  12 +-
 kernel/workqueue.c                            |  60 +-
 lib/locking-selftest.c                        |   2 +
 tools/lib/lockdep/include/liblockdep/common.h |   2 +
 tools/lib/lockdep/include/liblockdep/mutex.h  |  11 +-
 tools/lib/lockdep/tests/ABBA.c                |   9 +
 10 files changed, 893 insertions(+), 156 deletions(-)

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