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From:   Yuyang Du <duyuyang@gmail.com>
To:     peterz@infradead.org, will.deacon@arm.com, mingo@kernel.org
Cc:     bvanassche@acm.org, ming.lei@redhat.com,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, joe@perches.com,
        Yuyang Du <duyuyang@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 17/18] locking/lockdep: Update comments on dependency search
Date:   Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:57:24 +0800
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The breadth-first search is implemented as flat-out non-recursive now, but
the comments are still describing it as recursive, update the comments in
that regard.

Signed-off-by: Yuyang Du <duyuyang@gmail.com>
---
 kernel/locking/lockdep.c | 21 ++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
index 8202318..9df2b1a 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
@@ -1390,6 +1390,10 @@ static inline struct list_head *get_dep_list(struct lock_list *lock, int offset)
 	return lock_class + offset;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Forward- or backward-dependency search, used for both circular dependency
+ * checking and hardirq-unsafe/softirq-unsafe checking.
+ */
 static int __bfs(struct lock_list *source_entry,
 		 void *data,
 		 int (*match)(struct lock_list *entry, void *data),
@@ -1471,12 +1475,6 @@ static inline int __bfs_backwards(struct lock_list *src_entry,
 }
 
 /*
- * Recursive, forwards-direction lock-dependency checking, used for
- * both noncyclic checking and for hardirq-unsafe/softirq-unsafe
- * checking.
- */
-
-/*
  * Print a dependency chain entry (this is only done when a deadlock
  * has been detected):
  */
@@ -2177,7 +2175,7 @@ static inline void inc_chains(void)
 
 /*
  * There was a chain-cache miss, and we are about to add a new dependency
- * to a previous lock. We recursively validate the following rules:
+ * to a previous lock. We validate the following rules:
  *
  *  - would the adding of the <prev> -> <next> dependency create a
  *    circular dependency in the graph? [== circular deadlock]
@@ -2227,11 +2225,12 @@ static inline void inc_chains(void)
 	/*
 	 * Prove that the new <prev> -> <next> dependency would not
 	 * create a circular dependency in the graph. (We do this by
-	 * forward-recursing into the graph starting at <next>, and
-	 * checking whether we can reach <prev>.)
+	 * a breadth-first search into the graph starting at <next>,
+	 * which checks whether we can reach <prev>.)
 	 *
-	 * We are using global variables to control the recursion, to
-	 * keep the stackframe size of the recursive functions low:
+	 * The search is limited by the size of the circular queue (i.e.,
+	 * MAX_CIRCULAR_QUEUE_SIZE) which keeps track of a breadth of nodes
+	 * in the graph whose neighbours are to be checked.
 	 */
 	this.class = hlock_class(next);
 	this.parent = NULL;
-- 
1.8.3.1