On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 09:51:31PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Paul E. McKenney <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > And here is a prototype patch, which I intend to merge with the existing 
> > patch 
> > that renames rcu_lockdep_assert() to RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN().  I will also queue 
> > a 
> > revert of the patch below for 4.4.
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> > 
> >                                                     Thanx, Paul
> > 
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
> > index 41c49b12fe6d..663d6e028c3d 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
> > @@ -536,9 +536,29 @@ static inline int rcu_read_lock_sched_held(void)
> >  
> >  #endif /* #else #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC */
> >  
> > +/* Deprecate the rcu_lockdep_assert() macro. */
> > +static inline void __attribute((deprecated)) 
> > deprecate_rcu_lockdep_assert(void)
> > +{
> > +}
> > +
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_PROVE_RCU
> >  
> >  /**
> > + * rcu_lockdep_assert - emit lockdep splat if specified condition not met
> > + * @c: condition to check
> > + * @s: informative message
> > + */
> > +#define rcu_lockdep_assert(c, s)                                   \
> > +   do {                                                            \
> > +           static bool __section(.data.unlikely) __warned;         \
> > +           deprecate_rcu_lockdep_assert();                         \
> > +           if (debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled() && !__warned && !(c)) { \
> > +                   __warned = true;                                \
> > +                   lockdep_rcu_suspicious(__FILE__, __LINE__, s);  \
> > +           }                                                       \
> 
> Btw., out of general macro paranoia I'd write such constructs as something 
> like:
> 
>               if (!(c) && debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled() && !__warned) { \
> 
> I.e. always evaluate 'c' even if debugging is off. This way if the construct 
> is 
> fed an expression with a side effect (bad idea!) then it still works 
> regardless of 
> whether the warning triggered already or not.

If you feel strongly about this, I will need to make lockdep_is_held()
be defined when lockdep is disabled.  Easy enough to do, just thought
I should double-check.

> But this construct is OK too to me, so feel free to add my:
> 
>   Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>

Thank you!

                                                        Thanx, Paul

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