rcu: Use wrapper function instead of exporting tasklist_lock

Lockdep-RCU commit d11c563d exported tasklist_lock, which is not
a good thing.  This patch instead exports a function that uses
lockdep to check whether tasklist_lock is held.

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
LKML-Reference: <1267631219-8713-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

diff --git a/include/linux/cred.h b/include/linux/cred.h
index 4db09f8..52507c3 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/cred.h
+++ b/include/linux/cred.h
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ static inline void put_cred(const struct cred *_cred)
  * task or by holding tasklist_lock to prevent it from being unlinked.
  */
 #define __task_cred(task) \
-       ((const struct cred *)(rcu_dereference_check((task)->real_cred, rcu_read_lock_held() || lockdep_is_held(&tasklist_lock))))
+       ((const struct cred *)(rcu_dereference_check((task)->real_cred, rcu_read_lock_held() || lockdep_tasklist_lock_is_held())))
 
 /**
  * get_task_cred - Get another task's objective credentials

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 0eef87b..a47af20 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -258,6 +258,10 @@ extern spinlock_t mmlist_lock;
 
 struct task_struct;
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_PROVE_RCU
+extern int lockdep_tasklist_lock_is_held(void);
+#endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_PROVE_RCU */
+
 extern void sched_init(void);
 extern void sched_init_smp(void);
 extern asmlinkage void schedule_tail(struct task_struct *prev);

diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 45ed043..fed3a4d 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ static void __exit_signal(struct task_struct *tsk)
 
        sighand = rcu_dereference_check(tsk->sighand,
                                        rcu_read_lock_held() ||
-                                       lockdep_is_held(&tasklist_lock));
+                                       lockdep_tasklist_lock_is_held());
        spin_lock(&sighand->siglock);
 
        posix_cpu_timers_exit(tsk);

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 17bbf09..8691c54 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -86,7 +86,14 @@ int max_threads;             /* tunable limit on nr_threads */
 DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, process_counts) = 0;
 
 __cacheline_aligned DEFINE_RWLOCK(tasklist_lock);  /* outer */
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tasklist_lock);
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_PROVE_RCU
+int lockdep_tasklist_lock_is_held(void)
+{
+       return lockdep_is_held(&tasklist_lock);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(lockdep_tasklist_lock_is_held);
+#endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_PROVE_RCU */
 
 int nr_processes(void)
 {

diff --git a/kernel/pid.c b/kernel/pid.c
index b08e697..b606440 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/pid.c
+++ b/kernel/pid.c
@@ -367,7 +367,9 @@ struct task_struct *pid_task(struct pid *pid, enum pid_type type)
        struct task_struct *result = NULL;
        if (pid) {
                struct hlist_node *first;
-               first = rcu_dereference_check(pid->tasks[type].first, rcu_read_lock_held() || lockdep_is_held(&tasklist_lock));
+               first = rcu_dereference_check(pid->tasks[type].first,
+                                             rcu_read_lock_held() ||
+                                             lockdep_tasklist_lock_is_held());
                if (first)
                        result = hlist_entry(first, struct task_struct, pids[(type)].node);
        }