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| author | Yuyang Du <duyuyang@gmail.com> | 2019-05-06 10:19:31 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2019-06-03 11:55:47 +0200 |
| commit | 154f185e9c0f6c50ac8e901630e14aa5b36f9414 (patch) | |
| tree | 34f48bb7435dbb70f5ff2d880018abe3fb87f4bb /kernel/locking | |
| parent | locking/lockdep: Avoid constant checks in __bfs by using offset reference (diff) | |
| download | linux-154f185e9c0f6c50ac8e901630e14aa5b36f9414.tar.xz linux-154f185e9c0f6c50ac8e901630e14aa5b36f9414.zip | |
locking/lockdep: Update comments on dependency search
The breadth-first search is implemented as flat-out non-recursive now, but
the comments are still describing it as recursive, update the comments in
that regard.
Signed-off-by: Yuyang Du <duyuyang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: bvanassche@acm.org
Cc: frederic@kernel.org
Cc: ming.lei@redhat.com
Cc: will.deacon@arm.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190506081939.74287-16-duyuyang@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/locking')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/locking/lockdep.c | 21 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c index 2e8ef6082f72..b2ca20aa69aa 100644 --- a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c +++ b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c @@ -1381,6 +1381,10 @@ static inline struct list_head *get_dep_list(struct lock_list *lock, int offset) return lock_class + offset; } +/* + * Forward- or backward-dependency search, used for both circular dependency + * checking and hardirq-unsafe/softirq-unsafe checking. + */ static int __bfs(struct lock_list *source_entry, void *data, int (*match)(struct lock_list *entry, void *data), @@ -1461,12 +1465,6 @@ static inline int __bfs_backwards(struct lock_list *src_entry, } -/* - * Recursive, forwards-direction lock-dependency checking, used for - * both noncyclic checking and for hardirq-unsafe/softirq-unsafe - * checking. - */ - static void print_lock_trace(struct lock_trace *trace, unsigned int spaces) { unsigned long *entries = stack_trace + trace->offset; @@ -2285,7 +2283,7 @@ check_deadlock(struct task_struct *curr, struct held_lock *next, int read) /* * There was a chain-cache miss, and we are about to add a new dependency - * to a previous lock. We recursively validate the following rules: + * to a previous lock. We validate the following rules: * * - would the adding of the <prev> -> <next> dependency create a * circular dependency in the graph? [== circular deadlock] @@ -2335,11 +2333,12 @@ check_prev_add(struct task_struct *curr, struct held_lock *prev, /* * Prove that the new <prev> -> <next> dependency would not * create a circular dependency in the graph. (We do this by - * forward-recursing into the graph starting at <next>, and - * checking whether we can reach <prev>.) + * a breadth-first search into the graph starting at <next>, + * and check whether we can reach <prev>.) * - * We are using global variables to control the recursion, to - * keep the stackframe size of the recursive functions low: + * The search is limited by the size of the circular queue (i.e., + * MAX_CIRCULAR_QUEUE_SIZE) which keeps track of a breadth of nodes + * in the graph whose neighbours are to be checked. */ this.class = hlock_class(next); this.parent = NULL; |