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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2006-07-03 00:25:27 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-07-03 15:27:09 -0700 |
| commit | cf51624999e56c88154b5f7d451a265db6aabff7 (patch) | |
| tree | eee3fd290f9d79b26c4b6a2f1041f596da896a3c /fs/super.c | |
| parent | 91ebe2a9320db7195d1e25152b5d158fc66dc133 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-cf51624999e56c88154b5f7d451a265db6aabff7.tar.gz lwn-cf51624999e56c88154b5f7d451a265db6aabff7.zip | |
[PATCH] lockdep: annotate ->s_lock
Teach special (per-filesystem) locking code to the lock validator.
Minimal effect on non-lockdep kernels: one extra parameter to alloc_super().
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/super.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/super.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c index 9b780c42d845..5a4fe8be462a 100644 --- a/fs/super.c +++ b/fs/super.c @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ DEFINE_SPINLOCK(sb_lock); * Allocates and initializes a new &struct super_block. alloc_super() * returns a pointer new superblock or %NULL if allocation had failed. */ -static struct super_block *alloc_super(void) +static struct super_block *alloc_super(struct file_system_type *type) { struct super_block *s = kzalloc(sizeof(struct super_block), GFP_USER); static struct super_operations default_op; @@ -72,6 +72,12 @@ static struct super_block *alloc_super(void) INIT_LIST_HEAD(&s->s_inodes); init_rwsem(&s->s_umount); mutex_init(&s->s_lock); + /* + * The locking rules for s_lock are up to the + * filesystem. For example ext3fs has different + * lock ordering than usbfs: + */ + lockdep_set_class(&s->s_lock, &type->s_lock_key); down_write(&s->s_umount); s->s_count = S_BIAS; atomic_set(&s->s_active, 1); @@ -295,7 +301,7 @@ retry: } if (!s) { spin_unlock(&sb_lock); - s = alloc_super(); + s = alloc_super(type); if (!s) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); goto retry; |