On 01/12, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> The "int check" argument of lock_acquire() and held_lock->check
> are misleading and unneeded. This is only used as a boolean, 2
> denotes "true", everything else is "false". And this boolean is
> always equal to prove_locking.
>
> The only exception is __lockdep_no_validate__ which should make
> this condition "false" in validate_chain().

And I missed mark_irqflags(),

> @@ -3136,7 +3130,7 @@ static int __lock_acquire(struct lockdep_map *lock, 
> unsigned int subclass,
>       hlock->holdtime_stamp = lockstat_clock();
>  #endif
>
> -     if (check == 2 && !mark_irqflags(curr, hlock))
> +     if (prove_locking && !mark_irqflags(curr, hlock))
>               return 0;

This change is not right, at least it is not equivalent.

And I just realized that rcu_lock_acquire() does lock_acquire(check => 1).
Probably we can mark rcu_lock_map's as __lockdep_no_validate__.

Anything else I missed?

Oleg.

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