Commit-ID:  a10b5c564741cd3b6708f085a1fa892b63c2063d
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/a10b5c564741cd3b6708f085a1fa892b63c2063d
Author:     Byungchul Park <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 16:00:51 +0900
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
CommitDate: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 12:52:17 +0200

locking/lockdep: Add a comment about crossrelease_hist_end() in 
lockdep_sys_exit()

In lockdep_sys_exit(), crossrelease_hist_end() is called unconditionally
even when getting here without having started e.g. just after forking.

But it's no problem since it would roll back to an invalid entry anyway.
Add a comment to explain this.

Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
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[ Improved the description and the comments. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
---
 kernel/locking/lockdep.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
index 1114dc4..257931e 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
@@ -4623,6 +4623,10 @@ asmlinkage __visible void lockdep_sys_exit(void)
        /*
         * The lock history for each syscall should be independent. So wipe the
         * slate clean on return to userspace.
+        *
+        * crossrelease_hist_end() works well here even when getting here
+        * without starting (i.e. just after forking), because it rolls back
+        * the index to point to the last entry, which is already invalid.
         */
        crossrelease_hist_end(XHLOCK_PROC);
        crossrelease_hist_start(XHLOCK_PROC);

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