locking/lockdep: Add support for dynamic keys
A shortcoming of the current lockdep implementation is that it requires lock keys to be allocated statically. That forces all instances of lock objects that occur in a given data structure to share a lock key. Since lock dependency analysis groups lock objects per key sharing lock keys can cause false positive lockdep reports. Make it possible to avoid such false positive reports by allowing lock keys to be allocated dynamically. Require that dynamically allocated lock keys are registered before use by calling lockdep_register_key(). Complain about attempts to register the same lock key pointer twice without calling lockdep_unregister_key() between successive registration calls. The purpose of the new lock_keys_hash[] data structure that keeps track of all dynamic keys is twofold: - Verify whether the lockdep_register_key() and lockdep_unregister_key() functions are used correctly. - Avoid that lockdep_init_map() complains when encountering a dynamically allocated key. Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: johannes.berg@intel.com Cc: tj@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190214230058.196511-19-bvanassche@acm.orgSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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