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author | Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | 2009-04-05 02:14:15 -0400 |
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committer | Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | 2009-04-05 02:14:15 -0400 |
commit | 478c6a43fcbc6c11609f8cee7c7b57223907754f (patch) | |
tree | a7f7952099da60d33032aed6de9c0c56c9f8779e /Documentation/lockdep-design.txt | |
parent | 8a3f257c704e02aee9869decd069a806b45be3f1 (diff) | |
parent | 6bb597507f9839b13498781e481f5458aea33620 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'linus' into release
Conflicts:
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/longhaul.c
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/lockdep-design.txt b/Documentation/lockdep-design.txt index 48877301815..938ea22f2cc 100644 --- a/Documentation/lockdep-design.txt +++ b/Documentation/lockdep-design.txt @@ -27,33 +27,37 @@ lock-class. State ----- -The validator tracks lock-class usage history into 5 separate state bits: +The validator tracks lock-class usage history into 4n + 1 separate state bits: -- 'ever held in hardirq context' [ == hardirq-safe ] -- 'ever held in softirq context' [ == softirq-safe ] -- 'ever held with hardirqs enabled' [ == hardirq-unsafe ] -- 'ever held with softirqs and hardirqs enabled' [ == softirq-unsafe ] +- 'ever held in STATE context' +- 'ever head as readlock in STATE context' +- 'ever head with STATE enabled' +- 'ever head as readlock with STATE enabled' + +Where STATE can be either one of (kernel/lockdep_states.h) + - hardirq + - softirq + - reclaim_fs - 'ever used' [ == !unused ] -When locking rules are violated, these 4 state bits are presented in the -locking error messages, inside curlies. A contrived example: +When locking rules are violated, these state bits are presented in the +locking error messages, inside curlies. A contrived example: modprobe/2287 is trying to acquire lock: - (&sio_locks[i].lock){--..}, at: [<c02867fd>] mutex_lock+0x21/0x24 + (&sio_locks[i].lock){-.-...}, at: [<c02867fd>] mutex_lock+0x21/0x24 but task is already holding lock: - (&sio_locks[i].lock){--..}, at: [<c02867fd>] mutex_lock+0x21/0x24 + (&sio_locks[i].lock){-.-...}, at: [<c02867fd>] mutex_lock+0x21/0x24 -The bit position indicates hardirq, softirq, hardirq-read, -softirq-read respectively, and the character displayed in each -indicates: +The bit position indicates STATE, STATE-read, for each of the states listed +above, and the character displayed in each indicates: '.' acquired while irqs disabled '+' acquired in irq context '-' acquired with irqs enabled - '?' read acquired in irq context with irqs enabled. + '?' acquired in irq context with irqs enabled. Unused mutexes cannot be part of the cause of an error. |