Identify locks flagged by lockdep

When running a kernel with CONFIG_LOCKDEP=y, lockdep reports possible
recursive locking in some cases and possible circular locking dependency
in others, within the SPL and ZFS modules.

This patch uses a mutex type defined in SPL, MUTEX_NOLOCKDEP, to mark
such mutexes when they are initialized.  This mutex type causes
attempts to take or release those locks to be wrapped in lockdep_off()
and lockdep_on() calls to silence the dependency checker and allow the
use of lock_stats to examine contention.

For RW locks, it uses an analogous lock type, RW_NOLOCKDEP.

The goal is that these locks are ultimately changed back to type
MUTEX_DEFAULT or RW_DEFAULT, after the locks are annotated to reflect
their relationship (e.g. z_name_lock below) or any real problem with the
lock dependencies are fixed.

Some of the affected locks are:

tc_open_lock:
=============
This is an array of locks, all with same name, which txg_quiesce must
take all of in order to move txg to next state.  All default to the same
lockdep class, and so to lockdep appears recursive.

zp->z_name_lock:
================
In zfs_rmdir,
        dzp = znode for the directory (input to zfs_dirent_lock)
        zp  = znode for the entry being removed (output of zfs_dirent_lock)

zfs_rmdir()->zfs_dirent_lock() takes z_name_lock in dzp
zfs_rmdir() takes z_name_lock in zp

Since both dzp and zp are type znode_t, the locks have the same default
class, and lockdep considers it a possible recursive lock attempt.

l->l_rwlock:
============
zap_expand_leaf() sometimes creates two new zap leaf structures, via
these call paths:

zap_deref_leaf()->zap_get_leaf_byblk()->zap_leaf_open()
zap_expand_leaf()->zap_create_leaf()->zap_expand_leaf()->zap_create_leaf()

Because both zap_leaf_open() and zap_create_leaf() initialize
l->l_rwlock in their (separate) leaf structures, the lockdep class is
the same, and the linux kernel believes these might both be the same
lock, and emits a possible recursive lock warning.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Faaland <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]>
Closes #3895

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/module/zfs/multilist.c b/module/zfs/multilist.c
index e4446ded2..e02a4bae3 100644
--- a/module/zfs/multilist.c
+++ b/module/zfs/multilist.c
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ multilist_create(multilist_t *ml, size_t size, size_t offset, unsigned int num,
 
 	for (i = 0; i < ml->ml_num_sublists; i++) {
 		multilist_sublist_t *mls = &ml->ml_sublists[i];
-		mutex_init(&mls->mls_lock, NULL, MUTEX_DEFAULT, NULL);
+		mutex_init(&mls->mls_lock, NULL, MUTEX_NOLOCKDEP, NULL);
 		list_create(&mls->mls_list, size, offset);
 	}
 }