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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Thomas Sattler <tsattler@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] debug work struct cancel deadlocks with lockdep
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 10:45:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070705084538.GA3476@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1183583529.9662.34.camel@johannes.berg>


* 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

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-05  8:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-04 21:12 [PATCH] debug work struct cancel deadlocks with lockdep Johannes Berg
2007-07-05  8:45 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2007-07-05  8:50   ` Johannes Berg
2007-07-05  8:54     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-05  8:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-05  8:58   ` Johannes Berg
2007-07-05  9:01     ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-07-05  9:08       ` Johannes Berg
2007-07-05  9:10         ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-07-05  9:19           ` Johannes Berg
2007-07-05  9:03 ` Peter Zijlstra

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