[PATCH] lockdep: prove spinlock rwlock locking correctness
Use the lock validator framework to prove spinlock and rwlock locking
correctness.
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>
diff --git a/lib/kernel_lock.c b/lib/kernel_lock.c
index e713e86..e0fdfdd 100644
--- a/lib/kernel_lock.c
+++ b/lib/kernel_lock.c
@@ -177,7 +177,12 @@
static inline void __unlock_kernel(void)
{
- spin_unlock(&kernel_flag);
+ /*
+ * the BKL is not covered by lockdep, so we open-code the
+ * unlocking sequence (and thus avoid the dep-chain ops):
+ */
+ _raw_spin_unlock(&kernel_flag);
+ preempt_enable();
}
/*