lockdep: spin_lock_nest_lock()
Expose the new lock protection lock.
This can be used to annotate places where we take multiple locks of the
same class and avoid deadlocks by always taking another (top-level) lock
first.
NOTE: we're still bound to the MAX_LOCK_DEPTH (48) limit.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
diff --git a/include/linux/lockdep.h b/include/linux/lockdep.h
index 93a8cc0..4452c04 100644
--- a/include/linux/lockdep.h
+++ b/include/linux/lockdep.h
@@ -410,8 +410,10 @@
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
# ifdef CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING
# define spin_acquire(l, s, t, i) lock_acquire(l, s, t, 0, 2, NULL, i)
+# define spin_acquire_nest(l, s, t, n, i) lock_acquire(l, s, t, 0, 2, n, i)
# else
# define spin_acquire(l, s, t, i) lock_acquire(l, s, t, 0, 1, NULL, i)
+# define spin_acquire_nest(l, s, t, n, i) lock_acquire(l, s, t, 0, 1, NULL, i)
# endif
# define spin_release(l, n, i) lock_release(l, n, i)
#else