On Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 10:27:52AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > ...so I'm going to drop it and just add a comment about the > expectations. As Peter said there's already a multitude of ways to > cause false positive / negative results with lockdep so this is just > one more area where one needs to be careful and understand the lock > context they might be overriding.
One safe-guard might be to check the class you're overriding is indeed __no_validate__, and WARN if not. Then the unconditional reset is conistent. Then, if/when, that WARN ever triggers you can revisit all this.
