locking-core-2021-02-17
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17 Feb 11:03
- Core locking primitives updates:
- Remove mutex_trylock_recursive() from the API - no users left
- Simplify + constify the futex code a bit
- Lockdep updates:
- Teach lockdep about local_lock_t
- Add CONFIG_DEBUG_IRQFLAGS=y debug config option to check for
potentially unsafe IRQ mask restoration patterns. (I.e.
calling raw_local_irq_restore() with IRQs enabled.)
- Add wait context self-tests
- Fix graph lock corner case corrupting internal data structures
- Fix noinstr annotations
- LKMM updates:
- Simplify the litmus tests
- Documentation fixes
- KCSAN updates:
- Re-enable KCSAN instrumentation in lib/random32.c
- Misc fixes:
- Don't branch-trace static label APIs
- DocBook fix
- Remove stale leftover empty file
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>