From: Gregory Haskins It is possible for the current->curr_chain_key to become inconsistent with the current index if the chain fails to validate. The end result is that future lock_acquire() operations may inadvertently fail to find a hit in the cache resulting in a new node being added to the graph for every acquire. [ peterz: this might explain some of the lockdep is so _slow_ complaints. ] [ mingo: this does not impact the correctness of validation, but may slow down future operations significantly, if the chain gets very long. ] Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- diff -puN kernel/lockdep.c~lockdep-fix-mismatched-lockdep_depth-curr_chain_hash kernel/lockdep.c --- a/kernel/lockdep.c~lockdep-fix-mismatched-lockdep_depth-curr_chain_hash +++ a/kernel/lockdep.c @@ -1521,7 +1521,7 @@ cache_hit: } static int validate_chain(struct task_struct *curr, struct lockdep_map *lock, - struct held_lock *hlock, int chain_head) + struct held_lock *hlock, int chain_head, u64 chain_key) { /* * Trylock needs to maintain the stack of held locks, but it @@ -1534,7 +1534,7 @@ static int validate_chain(struct task_st * graph_lock for us) */ if (!hlock->trylock && (hlock->check == 2) && - lookup_chain_cache(curr->curr_chain_key, hlock->class)) { + lookup_chain_cache(chain_key, hlock->class)) { /* * Check whether last held lock: * @@ -1576,7 +1576,7 @@ static int validate_chain(struct task_st #else static inline int validate_chain(struct task_struct *curr, struct lockdep_map *lock, struct held_lock *hlock, - int chain_head) + int chain_head, u64 chain_key) { return 1; } @@ -2450,11 +2450,11 @@ static int __lock_acquire(struct lockdep chain_head = 1; } chain_key = iterate_chain_key(chain_key, id); - curr->curr_chain_key = chain_key; - if (!validate_chain(curr, lock, hlock, chain_head)) + if (!validate_chain(curr, lock, hlock, chain_head, chain_key)) return 0; + curr->curr_chain_key = chain_key; curr->lockdep_depth++; check_chain_key(curr); #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCKDEP _