Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
3c6b0c1c28
It is claimed that srcu_read_lock_nmisafe() NMI-safe. However it triggers a lockdep if used from NMI because lockdep expects a deadlock since nothing disables NMIs while the lock is acquired. This is because commitf0f44752f5("rcu: Annotate SRCU's update-side lockdep dependencies") annotates synchronize_srcu() as a write lock usage. This helps to detect a deadlocks such as srcu_read_lock(); synchronize_srcu(); srcu_read_unlock(); The side effect is that the lock srcu_struct now has a USED usage in normal contexts, so it conflicts with a USED_READ usage in NMI. But this shouldn't cause a real deadlock because the write lock usage from synchronize_srcu() is a fake one and only used for read/write deadlock detection. Use a try-lock annotation for srcu_read_lock_nmisafe() to avoid lockdep complains if used from NMI. Fixes:f0f44752f5("rcu: Annotate SRCU's update-side lockdep dependencies") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230927160231.XRCDDSK4@linutronix.de Reviewed-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay (AMD) <neeraj.iitr10@gmail.com>
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