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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-03-04 18:49:19 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-03-04 18:49:19 +0100
commit28b1bd1cbc33cae95a309691d814399a69cf3070 (patch)
tree6474d10332662f5302be0df8527c9e9e31e32a95 /Documentation
parent2602c3ba4508f528db024c1d209256513ea05de6 (diff)
parent1075414b06109a99b0e87601e84c74a95bd45681 (diff)
Merge branch 'core/locking' into tracing/ftrace
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/lockdep-design.txt30
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/lockdep-design.txt b/Documentation/lockdep-design.txt
index 488773018152..938ea22f2cc0 100644
--- a/Documentation/lockdep-design.txt
+++ b/Documentation/lockdep-design.txt
@@ -27,33 +27,37 @@ lock-class.
State
-----
-The validator tracks lock-class usage history into 5 separate state bits:
+The validator tracks lock-class usage history into 4n + 1 separate state bits:
-- 'ever held in hardirq context' [ == hardirq-safe ]
-- 'ever held in softirq context' [ == softirq-safe ]
-- 'ever held with hardirqs enabled' [ == hardirq-unsafe ]
-- 'ever held with softirqs and hardirqs enabled' [ == softirq-unsafe ]
+- 'ever held in STATE context'
+- 'ever head as readlock in STATE context'
+- 'ever head with STATE enabled'
+- 'ever head as readlock with STATE enabled'
+
+Where STATE can be either one of (kernel/lockdep_states.h)
+ - hardirq
+ - softirq
+ - reclaim_fs
- 'ever used' [ == !unused ]
-When locking rules are violated, these 4 state bits are presented in the
-locking error messages, inside curlies. A contrived example:
+When locking rules are violated, these state bits are presented in the
+locking error messages, inside curlies. A contrived example:
modprobe/2287 is trying to acquire lock:
- (&sio_locks[i].lock){--..}, at: [<c02867fd>] mutex_lock+0x21/0x24
+ (&sio_locks[i].lock){-.-...}, at: [<c02867fd>] mutex_lock+0x21/0x24
but task is already holding lock:
- (&sio_locks[i].lock){--..}, at: [<c02867fd>] mutex_lock+0x21/0x24
+ (&sio_locks[i].lock){-.-...}, at: [<c02867fd>] mutex_lock+0x21/0x24
-The bit position indicates hardirq, softirq, hardirq-read,
-softirq-read respectively, and the character displayed in each
-indicates:
+The bit position indicates STATE, STATE-read, for each of the states listed
+above, and the character displayed in each indicates:
'.' acquired while irqs disabled
'+' acquired in irq context
'-' acquired with irqs enabled
- '?' read acquired in irq context with irqs enabled.
+ '?' acquired in irq context with irqs enabled.
Unused mutexes cannot be part of the cause of an error.