lockdep: spin_lock_nest_lock()

Expose the new lock protection lock.

This can be used to annotate places where we take multiple locks of the
same class and avoid deadlocks by always taking another (top-level) lock
first.

NOTE: we're still bound to the MAX_LOCK_DEPTH (48) limit.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-11 09:30:24 +02:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 7531e2f34d
commit b7d39aff91
4 changed files with 21 additions and 0 deletions

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@ -410,8 +410,10 @@ static inline void print_irqtrace_events(struct task_struct *curr)
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
# ifdef CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING
# define spin_acquire(l, s, t, i) lock_acquire(l, s, t, 0, 2, NULL, i)
# define spin_acquire_nest(l, s, t, n, i) lock_acquire(l, s, t, 0, 2, n, i)
# else
# define spin_acquire(l, s, t, i) lock_acquire(l, s, t, 0, 1, NULL, i)
# define spin_acquire_nest(l, s, t, n, i) lock_acquire(l, s, t, 0, 1, NULL, i)
# endif
# define spin_release(l, n, i) lock_release(l, n, i)
#else