From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
jeremy@goop.org, hugh@veritas.com, mingo@elte.hu,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] workaround minor lockdep bug triggered by mm_take_all_locks
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 19:57:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080804175730.GL11476@duo.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080804174659.GK11476@duo.random>
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>
Lockdep can't recognize if spinlocks are at a different address. So
using trylock in a loop is one way to avoid lockdep to generate false
positives. After lockdep will be fixed this change can and should be
reverted.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>
---
Resubmit because I didn't update the subject and so I improved the
comments too. This is mostly to show it's a bug in lockdep and it can
be trivially worked around without having to fix lockdep for real, any
superior solution to this hack is more than welcome and recommended.
diff -r 3469dce61df1 mm/mmap.c
--- a/mm/mmap.c Tue Jul 29 20:01:28 2008 +0200
+++ b/mm/mmap.c Mon Aug 04 19:54:27 2008 +0200
@@ -2279,8 +2279,12 @@ static void vm_lock_anon_vma(struct anon
/*
* The LSB of head.next can't change from under us
* because we hold the mm_all_locks_mutex.
+ *
+ * spin_lock would confuse lockdep who doesn't notice
+ * the 'anon_vma' always changing address.
*/
- spin_lock(&anon_vma->lock);
+ while (!spin_trylock(&anon_vma->lock))
+ cpu_relax();
/*
* We can safely modify head.next after taking the
* anon_vma->lock. If some other vma in this mm shares
@@ -2310,7 +2314,12 @@ static void vm_lock_mapping(struct addre
*/
if (test_and_set_bit(AS_MM_ALL_LOCKS, &mapping->flags))
BUG();
- spin_lock(&mapping->i_mmap_lock);
+ /*
+ * spin_lock would confuse lockdep who doesn't notice
+ * the 'mapping' always changing address.
+ */
+ while (!spin_trylock(&mapping->i_mmap_lock))
+ cpu_relax();
}
}
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-04 17:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-04 13:03 [RFC][PATCH 0/7] lockdep Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-04 13:03 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/7] lockdep: Fix combinatorial explosion in lock subgraph traversal Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-05 8:34 ` David Miller
2008-08-05 8:46 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-13 3:48 ` Tim Pepper
2008-08-13 10:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-04 13:03 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/7] lockdep: lock_set_subclass - reset a held locks subclass Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-05 8:35 ` David Miller
2008-08-04 13:03 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/7] lockdep: re-annotate scheduler runqueues Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-05 8:35 ` David Miller
2008-08-04 13:03 ` [RFC][PATCH 4/7] lockdep: shrink held_lock structure Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-05 16:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-06 7:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-04 13:03 ` [RFC][PATCH 5/7] lockdep: map_acquire Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-04 13:03 ` [RFC][PATCH 6/7] lockdep: lock protection locks Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-04 13:03 ` [RFC][PATCH 7/7] lockdep: spin_lock_nest_lock() Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-04 14:07 ` Roland Dreier
2008-08-04 14:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-04 14:26 ` Roland Dreier
2008-08-04 14:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-04 14:53 ` Dave Jones
2008-08-04 14:56 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-04 16:26 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-08-04 16:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-04 17:27 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-08-04 17:46 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-08-04 17:57 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2008-08-04 18:48 ` [PATCH] workaround minor lockdep bug triggered by mm_take_all_locks Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-04 18:56 ` Roland Dreier
2008-08-04 19:05 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-04 20:15 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-08-04 20:37 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-04 21:09 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-08-04 21:14 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-08-04 21:30 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-08-04 21:41 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-04 22:12 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-08-04 21:42 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-08-04 22:30 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-08-04 23:38 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-08-05 0:47 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-08-04 21:27 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-08-04 21:54 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-08-04 21:57 ` David Miller
2008-08-05 2:00 ` Roland Dreier
2008-08-05 2:18 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-08-05 12:02 ` Roland Dreier
2008-08-05 12:20 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-08-04 18:48 ` [RFC][PATCH 7/7] lockdep: spin_lock_nest_lock() Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-04 21:32 ` David Miller
2008-08-04 18:06 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-08-04 18:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-04 19:26 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-08-04 19:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-04 19:39 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-04 20:16 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-08 15:27 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-10-08 15:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-08 16:03 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-10-08 16:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-08 16:53 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-10-08 15:52 ` Nick Piggin
2008-10-08 17:18 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-08-07 11:25 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-07 11:25 ` [RFC][PATCH 8/7] lockdep: annotate mm_take_all_locks() Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-07 11:25 ` [RFC][PATCH 9/7] mm: fix mm_take_all_locks() locking order Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-07 12:14 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-08-07 12:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-07 13:27 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-08-07 21:46 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-08-08 1:34 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-08-08 7:16 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-11 10:08 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/7] lockdep Ingo Molnar
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