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lockdep: spin_lock_nest_lock()

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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
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@ -183,8 +183,14 @@ do { \
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
# define spin_lock_nested(lock, subclass) _spin_lock_nested(lock, subclass)
# define spin_lock_nest_lock(lock, nest_lock) \
do { \
typecheck(struct lockdep_map *, &(nest_lock)->dep_map);\
_spin_lock_nest_lock(lock, &(nest_lock)->dep_map); \
} while (0)
#else
# define spin_lock_nested(lock, subclass) _spin_lock(lock)
# define spin_lock_nest_lock(lock, nest_lock) _spin_lock(lock)
#endif
#define write_lock(lock) _write_lock(lock)