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| author | Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> | 2009-07-20 19:15:35 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-08-02 15:41:35 +0200 |
| commit | bb97a91e2549a7f2df9c21d32542582f549ab3ec (patch) | |
| tree | fdddcb458b74a39e97089e5bcc93234cb50704c6 /include/linux/lockdep.h | |
| parent | f607c6685774811b8112e124f10a053d77015485 (diff) | |
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lockdep: Deal with many similar locks
spin_lock_nest_lock() allows to take many instances of the same
class, this can easily lead to overflow of MAX_LOCK_DEPTH.
To avoid this overflow, we'll stop accounting instances but
start reference counting the class in the held_lock structure.
[ We could maintain a list of instances, if we'd move the hlock
stuff into __lock_acquired(), but that would require
significant modifications to the current code. ]
We restrict this mode to spin_lock_nest_lock() only, because it
degrades the lockdep quality due to lost of instance.
For lockstat this means we don't track lock statistics for any
but the first lock in the series.
Currently nesting is limited to 11 bits because that was the
spare space available in held_lock. This yields a 2048
instances maximium.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/lockdep.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/lockdep.h | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/lockdep.h b/include/linux/lockdep.h index a6d5e5e4d084..47d42eff6124 100644 --- a/include/linux/lockdep.h +++ b/include/linux/lockdep.h @@ -213,10 +213,12 @@ struct held_lock { * interrupt context: */ unsigned int irq_context:2; /* bit 0 - soft, bit 1 - hard */ - unsigned int trylock:1; + unsigned int trylock:1; /* 16 bits */ + unsigned int read:2; /* see lock_acquire() comment */ unsigned int check:2; /* see lock_acquire() comment */ unsigned int hardirqs_off:1; + unsigned int references:11; /* 32 bits */ }; /* |