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authorPravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>2011-11-10 19:14:51 -0800
committerJesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>2011-12-03 09:35:07 -0800
commit86b1309c7e411b7c25dc0dc7a092582a4d291044 (patch)
treeb2557cbe0441d1d762e87a56e105bff6581c13e9 /include/linux/genetlink.h
parent263ba61d3b19508dfb003c215ec5d23f882b4f87 (diff)
genetlink: Add lockdep_genl_is_held().
Open vSwitch uses genl_mutex locking to protect datapath data-structures like flow-table, flow-actions. Following patch adds lockdep_genl_is_held() which is used for rcu annotation to prove locking. Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/genetlink.h')
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/genetlink.h b/include/linux/genetlink.h
index 61549b26ad6f..59311adfb0e0 100644
--- a/include/linux/genetlink.h
+++ b/include/linux/genetlink.h
@@ -85,6 +85,9 @@ enum {
/* All generic netlink requests are serialized by a global lock. */
extern void genl_lock(void);
extern void genl_unlock(void);
+#ifdef CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING
+extern int lockdep_genl_is_held(void);
+#endif
#endif /* __KERNEL__ */