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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2016-10-07 17:43:51 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-11-15 14:19:55 +0100
commit0f5225b024d4bffd682aab008c35862e8fdc1865 (patch)
treea5202d5cdb071b3060975c4bd4c1c3f56c792edc /scripts/checkpatch.pl
parent83f06168ef15da5dc735c7ea14fae67609ed9538 (diff)
locking/mutex, drm: Introduce mutex_trylock_recursive()
By popular DRM demand, introduce mutex_trylock_recursive() to fix up the two GEM users. Without this it is very easy for these drivers to get stuck in low-memory situations and trigger OOM. Work is in progress to remove the need for this in at least i915. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com> Cc: Imre Deak <imre.deak@intel.com> Cc: Jason Low <jason.low2@hpe.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com> Cc: Terry Rudd <terry.rudd@hpe.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@arm.com> Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/checkpatch.pl')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index a8368d1c4348..23f462f64a3f 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -6076,6 +6076,12 @@ sub process {
}
}
+# check for mutex_trylock_recursive usage
+ if ($line =~ /mutex_trylock_recursive/) {
+ ERROR("LOCKING",
+ "recursive locking is bad, do not use this ever.\n" . $herecurr);
+ }
+
# check for lockdep_set_novalidate_class
if ($line =~ /^.\s*lockdep_set_novalidate_class\s*\(/ ||
$line =~ /__lockdep_no_validate__\s*\)/ ) {