Thread (6 messages) 6 messages, 3 authors, 2012-08-24

[B.A.T.M.A.N.] [RFC] batman-adv: Set special lockdep classes to avoid lockdep warning

From: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Date: 2012-08-19 07:29:53
Subsystem: the rest · Maintainer: Linus Torvalds

[text will be added after I am awake... maybe]

[Should be fix the problem found in bug 162... formerly known as 161. code
stolen from macvlan... this is just a reimplementation of a solution proposed
by Simon Wunderlich]

Reported-by: Linus Lüssing <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
---
 soft-interface.c |   29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+)
diff --git a/soft-interface.c b/soft-interface.c
index 1aee7db..588c6f6 100644
--- a/soft-interface.c
+++ b/soft-interface.c
@@ -344,7 +344,36 @@ out:
 	return;
 }
 
+/*
+ * batman-adv network devices have devices nesting below it and are a special
+ * "super class" of normal network devices; split their locks off into a
+ * separate class since they always nest.
+ */
+static struct lock_class_key batadv_netdev_xmit_lock_key;
+static struct lock_class_key batadv_netdev_addr_lock_key;
+
+static void batadv_set_lockdep_class_one(struct net_device *dev,
+					 struct netdev_queue *txq,
+					 void *_unused)
+{
+	lockdep_set_class(&txq->_xmit_lock, &batadv_netdev_xmit_lock_key);
+}
+
+static void batadv_set_lockdep_class(struct net_device *dev)
+{
+	lockdep_set_class(&dev->addr_list_lock, &batadv_netdev_addr_lock_key);
+	netdev_for_each_tx_queue(dev, batadv_set_lockdep_class_one, NULL);
+}
+
+static int batadv_softif_init(struct net_device *dev)
+{
+	batadv_set_lockdep_class(dev);
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static const struct net_device_ops batadv_netdev_ops = {
+	.ndo_init = batadv_softif_init,
 	.ndo_open = batadv_interface_open,
 	.ndo_stop = batadv_interface_release,
 	.ndo_get_stats = batadv_interface_stats,
-- 
1.7.10.4
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