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* [PATCH] tty: tty_mutex: fix lockdep warning in tty_lock_pair
@ 2012-05-17  5:58 Ming Lei
  2012-05-17 18:28 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Ming Lei @ 2012-05-17  5:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Greg Kroah-Hartman
  Cc: linux-kernel, Ming Lei, Alan Cox, Arnd Bergmann, Peter Zijlstra

Commit d29f3ef39be4eec0362b985305fc526d9be318cf(tty_lock:
Localise the lock) introduces tty_lock_pair, in which
may cause lockdep warning because two locks with same lock
class are to be acquired one after another.

This patch uses mutex_lock_nest_lock annotation to avoid
the warning.

Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
---
 drivers/tty/tty_mutex.c |   21 ++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_mutex.c b/drivers/tty/tty_mutex.c
index 69adc80..079f9d7 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/tty_mutex.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_mutex.c
@@ -10,6 +10,18 @@
  * Getting the big tty mutex.
  */
 
+static void __lockfunc tty_lock_nest_lock(struct tty_struct *tty,
+		struct tty_struct *tty2)
+{
+	if (tty->magic != TTY_MAGIC) {
+		printk(KERN_ERR "L Bad %p\n", tty);
+		WARN_ON(1);
+		return;
+	}
+	tty_kref_get(tty);
+	mutex_lock_nest_lock(&tty->legacy_mutex, &tty2->legacy_mutex);
+}
+
 void __lockfunc tty_lock(struct tty_struct *tty)
 {
 	if (tty->magic != TTY_MAGIC) {
@@ -43,11 +55,14 @@ void __lockfunc tty_lock_pair(struct tty_struct *tty,
 {
 	if (tty < tty2) {
 		tty_lock(tty);
-		tty_lock(tty2);
+		tty_lock_nest_lock(tty2, tty);
 	} else {
-		if (tty2 && tty2 != tty)
+		if (tty2 && tty2 != tty) {
 			tty_lock(tty2);
-		tty_lock(tty);
+			tty_lock_nest_lock(tty, tty2);
+		} else {
+			tty_lock(tty);
+		}
 	}
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(tty_lock_pair);
-- 
1.7.9.5


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