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locking/lockdep: Explicitly initialize wq_barrier::done::map

With the new lockdep crossrelease feature, which checks completions usage, a false positive is reported in the workqueue code: > Worker A : acquired of wfc.work -> wait for cpu_hotplug_lock to be released > Task B : acquired of cpu_hotplug_lock -> wait for lock#3 to be released > Task C : acquired of lock#3 -> wait for completion of barr->done > (Task C is in lru_add_drain_all_cpuslocked()) > Worker D : wait for wfc.work to be released -> will complete barr->done Such a dead lock can not happen because Task C's barr->done and Worker D's barr->done can not be the same instance. The reason of this false positive is we initialize all wq_barrier::done at insert_wq_barrier() via init_completion(), which makes them belong to the same lock class, therefore, impossible circles are reported. To fix this, explicitly initialize the lockdep map for wq_barrier::done in insert_wq_barrier(), so that the lock class key of wq_barrier::done is a subkey of the corresponding work_struct, as a result we won't build a dependency between a wq_barrier with a unrelated work, and we can differ wq barriers based on the related works, so the false positive above is avoided. Also define the empty lockdep_init_map_crosslock() for !CROSSRELEASE to make the code simple and away from unnecessary #ifdefs.

Boqun Feng committed 9 years ago

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@@ -2476,7 +2476,16 @@ static void insert_wq_barrier(struct pool_workqueue *pwq, · 2475 unmodified lines
24762476 */
24772477 INIT_WORK_ONSTACK(&barr->work, wq_barrier_func);
24782478 __set_bit(WORK_STRUCT_PENDING_BIT, work_data_bits(&barr->work));
2479− init_completion(&barr->done);
2479+
2480+ /*
2481+ * Explicitly init the crosslock for wq_barrier::done, make its lock
2482+ * key a subkey of the corresponding work. As a result we won't
2483+ * build a dependency between wq_barrier::done and unrelated work.
2484+ */
2485+ lockdep_init_map_crosslock((struct lockdep_map *)&barr->done.map,
2486+ "(complete)wq_barr::done",
2487+ target->lockdep_map.key, 1);
2488+ __init_completion(&barr->done);
24802489 barr->task = current;
24812490
24822491 /*