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Commit 83835b3d authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra Committed by Ingo Molnar
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slab, lockdep: Annotate slab -> rcu -> debug_object -> slab



Lockdep thinks there's lock recursion through:

	kmem_cache_free()
	  cache_flusharray()
	    spin_lock(&l3->list_lock)  <----------------.
	    free_block()                                |
	      slab_destroy()                            |
		call_rcu()                              |
		  debug_object_activate()               |
		    debug_object_init()                 |
		      __debug_object_init()             |
			kmem_cache_alloc()              |
			  cache_alloc_refill()          |
			    spin_lock(&l3->list_lock) --'

Now debug objects doesn't use SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU and hence there is no
actual possibility of recursing. Luckily debug objects marks it slab
with SLAB_DEBUG_OBJECTS so we can identify the thing.

Mark all SLAB_DEBUG_OBJECTS (all one!) slab caches with a special
lockdep key so that lockdep sees its a different cachep.

Also add a WARN on trying to create a SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU |
SLAB_DEBUG_OBJECTS cache, to avoid possible future trouble.

Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarSebastian Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
[ fixes to the initial patch ]
Reported-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: default avatarPekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1311341165.27400.58.camel@twins


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent 70a0686a
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