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- witness_lock() is split into two pieces: witness_checkorder() and
witness_lock(). Witness_checkorder() determines if acquiring a specified
lock at the time it is called would result in a lock order. It
optionally adds a new lock order relationship as well. witness_lock()
updates witness's data structures to assume that a lock has been acquired
by stick a new lock instance in the appropriate lock instance list.
- The mutex and sx lock functions now call checkorder() prior to trying to
acquire a lock and continue to call witness_lock() after the acquire is
completed. This will let witness catch a deadlock before it happens
rather than trying to do so after the threads have deadlocked (i.e. never
actually report it).
- A new function witness_defineorder() has been added that adds a lock
order between two locks at runtime without having to acquire the locks.
If the lock order cannot be added it will return an error. This function
is available to programmers via the WITNESS_DEFINEORDER() macro which
accepts either two mutexes or two sx locks as its arguments.
- A few simple wrapper macros were added to allow developers to call
witness_checkorder() anywhere as a way of enforcing locking assertions
in code that might acquire a certain lock in some situations. The
macros are: witness_check_{mutex,shared_sx,exclusive_sx} and take an
appropriate lock as the sole argument.
- The code to remove a lock instance from a lock list in witness_unlock()
was unnested by using a goto to vastly improve the readability of this
function.
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