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Subject[patch] Declare explicit, hardware based lock ranking in serio
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> Thanks.
>
> So we're taking ps2->cmd_mutex and then we're recurring back into
> ps2_command() and then taking ps2->serio->cmd_mutex.
>
> I suspect that's all correct/natural/expected and needs another
> make-lockdep-shut-up patch.


The PS/2 code has a natural device order and there is a one level
recursion in this device order in terms of the cmd_mutex; annotate
this explicit recursion as ok

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
---
drivers/input/serio/libps2.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6.17-rc5-mm2/drivers/input/serio/libps2.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17-rc5-mm2.orig/drivers/input/serio/libps2.c
+++ linux-2.6.17-rc5-mm2/drivers/input/serio/libps2.c
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ int ps2_command(struct ps2dev *ps2dev, u
return -1;
}

- mutex_lock(&ps2dev->cmd_mutex);
+ mutex_lock_nested(&ps2dev->cmd_mutex, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING);

serio_pause_rx(ps2dev->serio);
ps2dev->flags = command == PS2_CMD_GETID ? PS2_FLAG_WAITID : 0;
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