On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 01:12:00PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Friday 20 November 2015 11:41:27 Mark Brown wrote:
> > Can we please at least have a comment explaining that this is working > > around lockdep limitations? > Not sure which limitation you are referring to. Maybe you could just > modify the changelog text as you like when applying the patch? > I tried to capture the fact that mutex_lock_nested() intentionally > doesn't evaluate its second argument when CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC > is not set, but that appears to be less of a limitation than a > choice of the interface. That's the limitation (or intereface choice or whatever) that I'm talking about - the code looks like a function call so not evaulating the second argument is surprising. I'm looking for something in the code rather than the changelog so it doesn't get cleaned up later.
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