Re: [PATCH] debugobjects: fix lockdep warning #2

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>]

On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Vegard Nossum wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> > could you resend the final patch please? It's a candidate for .27, if it
> > works out fine.
> 
> Here is the combined patch. I've tested it only briefly, and I am
> unsure of whether it still produces lockdep warnings for Daniel or
> not. I wish it would not be applied anywhere unless it was
> officially Reviewed-by: someone. In particular, I'm not quite
> steady with the irq-safe locking (Thomas might want to have a look).

The irq safe locking is the easy part :) Calling free_object w/o the
hash bucket lock held is fine as we removed it already from the bucket
and there is no other reference than the pointer we hold at that point.
 
>  
>  	printk(KERN_WARNING "ODEBUG: Out of memory. ODEBUG disabled\n");
>  
> +	/* XXX: Could probably be optimized by transplantation of more than
> +	 * one entry at a time. */
>  	for (i = 0; i < ODEBUG_HASH_SIZE; i++, db++) {
>  		spin_lock_irqsave(&db->lock, flags);
>  		hlist_for_each_entry_safe(obj, node, tmp, &db->list, node) {
>  			hlist_del(&obj->node);
> -			free_object(obj);
> +			hlist_add_head(&obj->node, &freelist);
>  		}
>  		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&db->lock, flags);
> +
> +		/* Now free them */
> +		hlist_for_each_entry_safe(obj, node, tmp, &freelist, node) {
> +			hlist_del(&obj->node);
> +			free_object(obj);
> +		}
>  	}
>  }

What you want is a helper function which moves the complete list from
one head to the other. I'll whip one up.

I'll push it through the tip tree.

Thanks,

	tglx