On 11/11, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > To remind, once/if I am sure you agree with this patch I'll send 2 additional > and simple patches: > > 1. lockdep annotations > > 2. CONFIG_PERCPU_RWSEM
It turns out, lockdep annotations are not that simple due to internal locks used by percpu_rw_semaphore. To clarify, it is actually simple but lockdep_set_novalidate_class() doesn't seem to actually work, and more importantly, it must not be used according to checkpatch.pl. And I guess ->lockdep_recursion should not be used too. However, without some tricks, the output from lockdep (when it finds the problem) does not look very clear because it blames those internal locks instead of "the whole" percpu_rw_semaphore. So this series starts with the small optimization which I was going to do later. It removes ->writer_mutex and greatly simplifies 2/3. Oleg. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
