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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@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ int in_lock_functions(unsigned long addr);
void __lockfunc _spin_lock(spinlock_t *lock) __acquires(lock);
void __lockfunc _spin_lock_nested(spinlock_t *lock, int subclass)
__acquires(lock);
void __lockfunc _spin_lock_nest_lock(spinlock_t *lock, struct lockdep_map *map)
__acquires(lock);
void __lockfunc _read_lock(rwlock_t *lock) __acquires(lock);
void __lockfunc _write_lock(rwlock_t *lock) __acquires(lock);
void __lockfunc _spin_lock_bh(spinlock_t *lock) __acquires(lock);