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authorLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>2009-02-11 13:04:36 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-02-11 14:25:36 -0800
commitcfebe563bd0a3ff97e1bc167123120d59c7a84db (patch)
tree6178bf45bcccaf3d43d87cfe0eef059d849c7140 /kernel
parent01c4a4283137d24c9cc3785f1f312e895a18f273 (diff)
downloadlinux-cfebe563bd0a3ff97e1bc167123120d59c7a84db.tar.gz
cgroups: fix lockdep subclasses overflow
I enabled all cgroup subsystems when compiling kernel, and then:
 # mount -t cgroup -o net_cls xxx /mnt
 # mkdir /mnt/0

This showed up immediately:
 BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_SUBCLASSES too low!
 turning off the locking correctness validator.

It's caused by the cgroup hierarchy lock:
	for (i = 0; i < CGROUP_SUBSYS_COUNT; i++) {
		struct cgroup_subsys *ss = subsys[i];
		if (ss->root == root)
			mutex_lock_nested(&ss->hierarchy_mutex, i);
	}

Now we have 9 cgroup subsystems, and the above 'i' for net_cls is 8, but
MAX_LOCKDEP_SUBCLASSES is 8.

This patch uses different lockdep keys for different subsystems.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/cgroup.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index 5a54ff42874e..e14db9c089b9 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -2351,7 +2351,7 @@ static void cgroup_lock_hierarchy(struct cgroupfs_root *root)
 	for (i = 0; i < CGROUP_SUBSYS_COUNT; i++) {
 		struct cgroup_subsys *ss = subsys[i];
 		if (ss->root == root)
-			mutex_lock_nested(&ss->hierarchy_mutex, i);
+			mutex_lock(&ss->hierarchy_mutex);
 	}
 }
 
@@ -2637,6 +2637,7 @@ static void __init cgroup_init_subsys(struct cgroup_subsys *ss)
 	BUG_ON(!list_empty(&init_task.tasks));
 
 	mutex_init(&ss->hierarchy_mutex);
+	lockdep_set_class(&ss->hierarchy_mutex, &ss->subsys_key);
 	ss->active = 1;
 }