Re: [PATCH v3] KVM: SEV: Mark nested locking of vcpu->lock

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 4/29/22 03:03, Hillf Danton wrote:
> Wonder if local lock classes [1] help.
>
> [1]https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/165055518776.3745911.9346998911322224736.stgit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

No, they wouldn't.  Local lock classes are more of a per-subsystem lock, 
while here the issue is that we are taking an arbitrary amount of locks 
at the same time.

Technically it would be possible to put a struct lock_class_key in 
struct kvm_vcpu, but that wouldn't scale and would actually _reduce_ the 
likelihood of lockdep reporting bad things.

The effectiveness of lockdep comes exactly from using the same map for 
all locks in the class, so that AB/BA scenarios are caught throughout 
the whole life of the system.  If each lock has a separate they would be 
caught only if the "B" is exactly the same mutex in both AB and BA cases.

Paolo