cpuset modifies partitions, including isolated, while holding the cpuset
mutex.
This means that holding the cpuset mutex is safe to synchronize against
housekeeping cpumask changes.
Provide a lockdep check to validate that.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
---
include/linux/cpuset.h | 2 ++
kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c | 7 +++++++
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/cpuset.h b/include/linux/cpuset.h
index 2ddb256187b5..051d36fec578 100644
--- a/include/linux/cpuset.h
+++ b/include/linux/cpuset.h
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@
#include <linux/mmu_context.h>
#include <linux/jump_label.h>
+extern bool lockdep_is_cpuset_held(void);
+
#ifdef CONFIG_CPUSETS
/*
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c b/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c
index b00d8e3c30ba..2d2fc74bc00c 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c
@@ -254,6 +254,13 @@ void cpuset_unlock(void)
mutex_unlock(&cpuset_mutex);
}
+#ifdef CONFIG_LOCKDEP
+bool lockdep_is_cpuset_held(void)
+{
+ return lockdep_is_held(&cpuset_mutex);
+}
+#endif
+
static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(callback_lock);
void cpuset_callback_lock_irq(void)
--
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