From b7d39aff91454f2534db2275f55908656ec0470c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:30:24 +0200 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/spinlock.c | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/spinlock.c') diff --git a/kernel/spinlock.c b/kernel/spinlock.c index a1fb54c93cd..44baeea94ab 100644 --- a/kernel/spinlock.c +++ b/kernel/spinlock.c @@ -292,6 +292,7 @@ void __lockfunc _spin_lock_nested(spinlock_t *lock, int subclass) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(_spin_lock_nested); + unsigned long __lockfunc _spin_lock_irqsave_nested(spinlock_t *lock, int subclass) { unsigned long flags; @@ -314,6 +315,16 @@ unsigned long __lockfunc _spin_lock_irqsave_nested(spinlock_t *lock, int subclas EXPORT_SYMBOL(_spin_lock_irqsave_nested); +void __lockfunc _spin_lock_nest_lock(spinlock_t *lock, + struct lockdep_map *nest_lock) +{ + preempt_disable(); + spin_acquire_nest(&lock->dep_map, 0, 0, nest_lock, _RET_IP_); + LOCK_CONTENDED(lock, _raw_spin_trylock, _raw_spin_lock); +} + +EXPORT_SYMBOL(_spin_lock_nest_lock); + #endif void __lockfunc _spin_unlock(spinlock_t *lock) -- cgit v1.2.3