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Commit 108c1485 authored by Bart Van Assche's avatar Bart Van Assche Committed by Ingo Molnar
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locking/lockdep: Add support for dynamic keys



A shortcoming of the current lockdep implementation is that it requires
lock keys to be allocated statically. That forces all instances of lock
objects that occur in a given data structure to share a lock key. Since
lock dependency analysis groups lock objects per key sharing lock keys
can cause false positive lockdep reports. Make it possible to avoid
such false positive reports by allowing lock keys to be allocated
dynamically. Require that dynamically allocated lock keys are
registered before use by calling lockdep_register_key(). Complain about
attempts to register the same lock key pointer twice without calling
lockdep_unregister_key() between successive registration calls.

The purpose of the new lock_keys_hash[] data structure that keeps
track of all dynamic keys is twofold:

  - Verify whether the lockdep_register_key() and lockdep_unregister_key()
    functions are used correctly.

  - Avoid that lockdep_init_map() complains when encountering a dynamically
    allocated key.

Signed-off-by: default avatarBart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: johannes.berg@intel.com
Cc: tj@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190214230058.196511-19-bvanassche@acm.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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