[PATCH] lockdep: annotate i_mutex

Teach special (recursive) locking code to the lock validator.  Has no effect
on non-lockdep kernels.

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>
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Ingo Molnar 2006-07-03 00:25:05 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent a90b9c05df
commit f2eace23e9
3 changed files with 30 additions and 11 deletions

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@ -542,6 +542,25 @@ struct inode {
#endif
};
/*
* inode->i_mutex nesting subclasses for the lock validator:
*
* 0: the object of the current VFS operation
* 1: parent
* 2: child/target
* 3: quota file
*
* The locking order between these classes is
* parent -> child -> normal -> quota
*/
enum inode_i_mutex_lock_class
{
I_MUTEX_NORMAL,
I_MUTEX_PARENT,
I_MUTEX_CHILD,
I_MUTEX_QUOTA
};
/*
* NOTE: in a 32bit arch with a preemptable kernel and
* an UP compile the i_size_read/write must be atomic