From: Ingo Molnar Teach special (per-filesystem) locking code to the lock validator. Minimal effect on non-lockdep kernels: one extra parameter to alloc_super(). Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/super.c | 10 ++++++++-- include/linux/fs.h | 1 + 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/super.c~lockdep-annotate-s_lock fs/super.c --- a/fs/super.c~lockdep-annotate-s_lock +++ a/fs/super.c @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ DEFINE_SPINLOCK(sb_lock); * Allocates and initializes a new &struct super_block. alloc_super() * returns a pointer new superblock or %NULL if allocation had failed. */ -static struct super_block *alloc_super(void) +static struct super_block *alloc_super(struct file_system_type *type) { struct super_block *s = kzalloc(sizeof(struct super_block), GFP_USER); static struct super_operations default_op; @@ -72,6 +72,12 @@ static struct super_block *alloc_super(v INIT_LIST_HEAD(&s->s_inodes); init_rwsem(&s->s_umount); mutex_init(&s->s_lock); + /* + * The locking rules for s_lock are up to the + * filesystem. For example ext3fs has different + * lock ordering than usbfs: + */ + lockdep_set_class(&s->s_lock, &type->s_lock_key); down_write(&s->s_umount); s->s_count = S_BIAS; atomic_set(&s->s_active, 1); @@ -295,7 +301,7 @@ retry: } if (!s) { spin_unlock(&sb_lock); - s = alloc_super(); + s = alloc_super(type); if (!s) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); goto retry; diff -puN include/linux/fs.h~lockdep-annotate-s_lock include/linux/fs.h --- a/include/linux/fs.h~lockdep-annotate-s_lock +++ a/include/linux/fs.h @@ -1295,6 +1295,7 @@ struct file_system_type { struct module *owner; struct file_system_type * next; struct list_head fs_supers; + struct lock_class_key s_lock_key; }; extern int get_sb_bdev(struct file_system_type *fs_type, _