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cgroups: fix lockdep subclasses overflow
authorLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:04:36 +0000 (13:04 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:25:36 +0000 (14:25 -0800)
commitcfebe563bd0a3ff97e1bc167123120d59c7a84db
tree6178bf45bcccaf3d43d87cfe0eef059d849c7140
parent01c4a4283137d24c9cc3785f1f312e895a18f273
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>
include/linux/cgroup.h
kernel/cgroup.c