[PATCH] lockdep: annotate blkdev nesting
Teach special (recursive) locking code to the lock validator. Effects on non-lockdep kernels: - the introduction of the following function variants: extern struct block_device *open_partition_by_devnum(dev_t, unsigned); extern int blkdev_put_partition(struct block_device *); static int blkdev_get_whole(struct block_device *bdev, mode_t mode, unsigned flags); which on non-lockdep are the same as open_by_devnum(), blkdev_put() and blkdev_get(). - a subclass parameter to do_open(). [unused on non-lockdep] - a subclass parameter to __blkdev_put(), which is a new internal function for the main blkdev_put*() functions. [parameter unused on non-lockdep kernels, except for two sanity check WARN_ON()s] these functions carry no semantical difference - they only express object dependencies towards the lockdep subsystem. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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