Re: lockdep: incorrect deadlock warning with two GPIO expanders

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 04:08:52PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> 2016-09-15 15:39 GMT+02:00 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>:

> > In any case, if this fails, we can always punt and simply count the
> > total number of instances of this driver on the system and go with that.
> >
> 
> But for __mutex_init() to work with the key argument you need to know
> it at compile time, right?

You can do something like:

	mutex_init(&mutex);
	lockdep_set_subclass(&mutex, nr);

which will of course fail at runtime the moment nr >= 8, but is that
really a concern?

Equally you can do:

static struct lock_class_key my_keys[NR];

	mutex_init(&mutex);
	BUG_ON(nr > NR);
	lockdep_set_class(&mutex, my_keys + nr);

and have a bigger limit.