On Tue, May 09, 2023 at 04:18:59PM -0400, Kent Overstreet wrote: > On Tue, May 09, 2023 at 09:31:47PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Tue, May 09, 2023 at 12:56:28PM -0400, Kent Overstreet wrote: > > > This adds a method to tell lockdep not to check lock ordering within a > > > lock class - but to still check lock ordering w.r.t. other lock types. > > > > > > This is for bcachefs, where for btree node locks we have our own > > > deadlock avoidance strategy w.r.t. other btree node locks (cycle > > > detection), but we still want lockdep to check lock ordering w.r.t. > > > other lock types. > > > > > > > ISTR you had a much nicer version of this where you gave a custom order > > function -- what happend to that? > > Actually, I spoke too soon; this patch and the other series with the > comparison function solve different problems. > > For bcachefs btree node locks, we don't have a defined lock ordering at > all - we do full runtime cycle detection, so we don't want lockdep > checking for self deadlock because we're handling that but we _do_ want > lockdep checking lock ordering of btree node locks w.r.t. other locks in > the system. Have you read the ww_mutex code? If not, please do so, it does similar things. The way it gets around the self-nesting check is by using the nest_lock annotation, the acquire context itself also has a dep_map for this purpose.
