lockdep: Print a nicer description for normal deadlocks
The lockdep output can be pretty cryptic, having nicer output can save a lot of head scratching. When a normal deadlock scenario is detected by lockdep (lock A -> lock B and there exists a place where lock B -> lock A) we now get the following new output: other info that might help us debug this: Possible unsafe locking scenario: CPU0 CPU1 ---- ---- lock(lockB); lock(lockA); lock(lockB); lock(lockA); *** DEADLOCK *** On cases where there's a deeper chair, it shows the partial chain that can cause the issue: Chain exists of: lockC --> lockA --> lockB Possible unsafe locking scenario: CPU0 CPU1 ---- ---- lock(lockB); lock(lockA); lock(lockB); lock(lockC); *** DEADLOCK *** Signed-off-by:Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by:
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110421014259.380621789@goodmis.org Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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