locking/lockdep: Update comment
A leftover comment is removed. While at it, add more explanatory
comments. Such a trivial patch!
Signed-off-by: Yuyang Du <duyuyang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: bvanassche@acm.org
Cc: frederic@kernel.org
Cc: ming.lei@redhat.com
Cc: will.deacon@arm.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190506081939.74287-12-duyuyang@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
diff --git a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
index 6cf14c8..a9799f9 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
@@ -2811,10 +2811,16 @@ static int validate_chain(struct task_struct *curr,
* - is softirq-safe, if this lock is hardirq-unsafe
*
* And check whether the new lock's dependency graph
- * could lead back to the previous lock.
+ * could lead back to the previous lock:
*
- * any of these scenarios could lead to a deadlock. If
- * All validations
+ * - within the current held-lock stack
+ * - across our accumulated lock dependency records
+ *
+ * any of these scenarios could lead to a deadlock.
+ */
+ /*
+ * The simple case: does the current hold the same lock
+ * already?
*/
int ret = check_deadlock(curr, hlock, hlock->read);
