Re: [PATCH] debug work struct cancel deadlocks with lockdep

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:

> +#ifdef CONFIG_LOCKDEP
> +		/*
> +		 * It is permissible to free the struct work_struct
> +		 * from inside the function that is called from it,
> +		 * this we need to take into account for lockdep too.
> +		 * To avoid bogus "held lock freed" warnings as well
> +		 * as problems when looking into work->lockdep_map,
> +		 * make a copy and use that here.
> +		 */
> +		struct lockdep_map lockdep_map = work->lockdep_map;
> +#endif

> +		lock_acquire(&lockdep_map, 0, 0, 0, 2, _THIS_IP_);
>  		f(work);
> +		lock_release(&lockdep_map, 1, _THIS_IP_);

neat trick :)

	Ingo