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locking/mutex: Fix debug checks

OK, so commit:

1d8fe7dc8078 ("locking/mutexes: Unlock the mutex without the wait_lock")

generates this boot warning when CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES=y:

WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 139 at /usr/src/linux-2.6/kernel/locking/mutex-debug.c:82 debug_mutex_unlock+0x155/0x180() DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(lock->owner != current)

And that makes sense, because as soon as we release the lock a
new owner can come in...

One would think that !__mutex_slowpath_needs_to_unlock()
implementations suffer the same, but for DEBUG we fall back to
mutex-null.h which has an unconditional 1 for that.

The mutex debug code requires the mutex to be unlocked after
doing the debug checks, otherwise it can find inconsistent
state.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: jason.low2@hp.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140312122442.GB27965@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

authored by

Peter Zijlstra and committed by
Ingo Molnar
6f008e72 34c6bc2c

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kernel/locking/mutex-debug.c
··· 83 83 84 84 DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(!lock->wait_list.prev && !lock->wait_list.next); 85 85 mutex_clear_owner(lock); 86 + 87 + /* 88 + * __mutex_slowpath_needs_to_unlock() is explicitly 0 for debug 89 + * mutexes so that we can do it here after we've verified state. 90 + */ 91 + atomic_set(&lock->count, 1); 86 92 } 87 93 88 94 void debug_mutex_init(struct mutex *lock, const char *name,
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kernel/locking/mutex.c
··· 34 34 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES 35 35 # include "mutex-debug.h" 36 36 # include <asm-generic/mutex-null.h> 37 + /* 38 + * Must be 0 for the debug case so we do not do the unlock outside of the 39 + * wait_lock region. debug_mutex_unlock() will do the actual unlock in this 40 + * case. 41 + */ 42 + # undef __mutex_slowpath_needs_to_unlock 43 + # define __mutex_slowpath_needs_to_unlock() 0 37 44 #else 38 45 # include "mutex.h" 39 46 # include <asm/mutex.h>